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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 was an American author who is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism.
Author | American
Born: 1843-04-15 in New York, USA
Died: February 28, 1916 in London, England
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
Henry James
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
Henry James
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Henry James
In art economy is always beauty.
Henry James
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
Henry James
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Henry James
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Henry James
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
Henry James
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
Henry James
I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
Henry James
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
Henry James
Ideas are, in truth, force.
Henry James
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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