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Henry James war ein amerikanisch-britischer Schriftsteller. Er war der jüngere Bruder des Philosophen William James. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. April 1843 – 28. Februar 1916
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„Drei Dinge im menschlichen Leben sind wichtig. Das Erste, freundlich zu sein. Das Zweite, freundlich zu sein. Und das Dritte, freundlich zu sein.“

Henry James

„Habe keine Angst vor dem Leben. Glaube daran, dass das Leben lebenswert ist und dein Glaube wird helfen Tatsachen zu schaffen.“

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„In der Kunstwirtschaft ist immer Schönheit.“

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„Wenn dies Liebe war, war die Liebe überbewertet worden.“

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„Summer afternoon – Sommernachmittag; für mich sind das immer die beiden schönsten Wörter der englischen Sprache gewesen.“

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„Wenn man stark ist, liebt man stärker.“

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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.”

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Overheard by his nephew, Billy James, in 1902; quoted in Leon Edel, Henry James: A Life, vol V: The Master 1901-1916 (1972).

“Don't mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.”

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Henry James buch The Portrait of a Lady

Quelle: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XXIII.

“She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause.”

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Henry James buch Washington Square

Washington Square, ch. XV.

“Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.”

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Henry James buch Washington Square

Quelle: Washington Square

“You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.”

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Henry James buch The Portrait of a Lady

Quelle: The Portrait of a Lady

“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.”

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Henry James buch The Middle Years

Quelle: The Middle Years (1893).

“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.”

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“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”

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Henry James buch The Portrait of a Lady

Quelle: The Portrait of a Lady

“I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.”

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Henry James buch The Portrait of a Lady

Quelle: The Portrait of a Lady

“She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”

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Henry James buch The Portrait of a Lady

Quelle: The Portrait of a Lady

“Besides, I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I think, is more honourable than not to judge at all.”

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Henry James buch The Portrait of a Lady

Quelle: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XVI.

“If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.”

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Henry James buch The Portrait of a Lady

Quelle: The Portrait of a Lady

“He is outside of everything, and an alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.”

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"Nathaniel Hawthorne" in Library of the World's Best Literature, vol. XII (1897), ed. Charles Dudley Warner.

“Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.”

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Henry James buch The Portrait of a Lady

Quelle: The Portrait of a Lady

“Love has nothing to do with good reasons.”

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Henry James buch The Portrait of a Lady

Quelle: The Portrait of a Lady

“There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.”

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Henry James buch The Europeans

Quelle: The Europeans

“do you think it is
better to be clever than to be good?”
“Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for
nothing unless you are clever.”

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Henry James buch Washington Square

Quelle: Washington Square

“Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”

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Quoted by Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934), ch. 10.

“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”

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Letter to Miss M. Betham Edwards (5 January 1912).

“I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.”

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Henry James buch The Portrait of a Lady

Quelle: The Portrait of a Lady

“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.”

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Henry James buch The Portrait of a Lady

Quelle: The Portrait of a Lady

“I always want to know the things one shouldn't do."
"So as to do them?" asked her aunt.
"So as to choose." said Isabel”

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Henry James buch The Portrait of a Lady

Quelle: The Portrait of a Lady

“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?”

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Henry James buch The Ambassadors

Quelle: The Ambassadors (1903), book V, ch. II.
Kontext: 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?.. What one loses one loses; make no mistake about that... The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.. Live!

“And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.”

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Henry James buch The Portrait of a Lady

Quelle: The Portrait of a Lady

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