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Henry James Quotes

Henry James quotes about humanity

American Writer April 15, 1843 – February 28, 1916

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To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed. They will champion the causes of life's underdogs, forging a society without class discrimination. They will supply humanity with music and beauty as it has never known. They will endure. Henry James
Henry James quote: "Three things in human life are important. The first is to be..."
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
Henry James quote: "Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there."
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. Henry James
When you have lived as long as I, you will see that every human being has his shell, and that you must take the shell into acount. By the shell I mean the whole envelope of circumstances. There is no such thing as an isolated man or woman; we are each of us made up of a cluster of apurtenances. What do you call one's self? Where does it begin? Where does it end? It overflows into everythng tht belongs to us - and then flows back again. (...) One's self - for other people - is one's expression... Henry James
I could only get on at all by taking "nature" into my confidence and my account, by treating my monstrous ordeal as a push in a direction unusual, of course, and unpleasant, but demanding, after all, for a fair front, only another turn of the screw of ordinary human virtue. Henry James
He liked however the open shutters; he opened everywhere those Mrs. Muldoon had closed, closing them as carefully afterwards, so that she shouldn't notice: he liked--oh this he did like, and above all in the upper rooms!--the sense of the hard silver of the autumn stars through the window-panes, and scarcely less the flare of the street-lamps below, the white electric lustre which it would have taken curtains to keep out. This was human actual social; this was of the world he had lived in,... Henry James
Henry James quote: "It was the abyss of human illusion that was the real, the..."
It was the abyss of human illusion that was the real, the tideless deep. Henry James
They strike one, above all, as giving no account of themselves in any terms already consecrated by human use; to this inarticulate state they probably form, collectively, the most unprecedented of monuments; abysmal the mystery of what they think, what they feel, what they want, what they suppose themselves to be saying. Henry James
Henry James quote: "To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can..."
To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him. Henry James
Henry James quote: "Never say you know the last word about any human heart."
Never say you know the last word about any human heart. Henry James
Henry James quote: "There are no themes so human as those that reflect the..."
There are no themes so human as those that reflect the closeness of bliss to bale. Henry James

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