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Henry James

Geburtstag: 15. April 1843
Todesdatum: 28. Februar 1916

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

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„Unterschätzen Sie den Wert der Ironie nicht - sie ist äußerst wertvoll.“

— Henry James

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

— Henry James

Über Leben, Über Angst, Über Glauben

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

— Henry James
Ch. XXIII.

„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, The Middle Years
The Middle Years (1893).

„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.“

— Henry James, The Europeans

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

— Henry James, 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.“

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

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

— Henry James
Ch. XVI.

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

— Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

„She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.“

— Henry James

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