"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself." ~Henry James
“He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.” ~Henry James
"It seems probable that if we were never bewildered there would never be a story to tell about us; we should partake of the superior nature of the all-knowing immortals whose annals are dreadfully dull so long as flurried humans are not, for the positive relief of bored Olympians, mixed up with them." ~Henry James, from the preface to The Princess Casamassima from Everyman's Library
"It's time to start living the life you have imagined." ~Henry James
"Sorrow comes in great waves... but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain." ~Henry James
"Summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language" –Henry James
"The infirmity of art was the candour of affection, the grossness of pedigree the refinement of sympathy; the ugliest objects, in fact, as a general thing, were the bravest, the tenderest mementos, and, as such, figured in glass cases apart, worthy doubtless of the home, but not worthy of the temple — dedicated to the grimacing, not to the clear-faced, gods." ~Henry James, The Golden Bowl from Everyman's Library
"The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it—this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience." ~Henry James (1843-1916)
"The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.” ~Henry James
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." ~Henry James
"To live over other people's lives is nothing unless we live over their perceptions, live over their growth, the change, the varying intensity of the same - since it was by these things they themselves lived." ~Henry James
“We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.” ~Henry James, The Middle Years
"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women." ~from "Washington Square" (1881) by Henry James
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"It seems probable that if we were never bewildered there would never be a story to tell about us; we should partake of the superior nature of the all-knowing immortals whose annals are dreadfully dull so long as flurried humans are not, for the positive relief of bored Olympians, mixed up with them." ~Henry James, from the preface to The Princess Casamassima from Everyman's Library
"It's time to start living the life you have imagined." ~Henry James
"Sorrow comes in great waves... but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain." ~Henry James
"Summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language" –Henry James
"The infirmity of art was the candour of affection, the grossness of pedigree the refinement of sympathy; the ugliest objects, in fact, as a general thing, were the bravest, the tenderest mementos, and, as such, figured in glass cases apart, worthy doubtless of the home, but not worthy of the temple — dedicated to the grimacing, not to the clear-faced, gods." ~Henry James, The Golden Bowl from Everyman's Library
"The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it—this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience." ~Henry James (1843-1916)
"The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.” ~Henry James
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." ~Henry James
"To live over other people's lives is nothing unless we live over their perceptions, live over their growth, the change, the varying intensity of the same - since it was by these things they themselves lived." ~Henry James
“We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.” ~Henry James, The Middle Years
"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women." ~from "Washington Square" (1881) by Henry James
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