Henry James (American - Writer)
April 15, 1843 - February 28, 1916
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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.
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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.
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.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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