It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.Henry James
Ideas are, in truth, force.
Henry James
It was as if, at moments, we were perpetually coming into sight of subjects before which we must stop short, turning suddenly out of alleys that we perceived to be blind, closing with a little bang that made us look at each other--for, like all bangs, it was something louder than we had intended--the doors we had indiscreetly opened.
Henry James
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
Henry James
We work n 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
What could the thing that was to happen to him be, after all, but just this thing that had begun to happen Her dying, her death, his consequent solitude - that was what he had figured as the beast in the jungle.
Henry James
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