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“Je m'ennuie à mort parfois moi-même. Alors il me paraît normal que je puisse t'ennuyer.”

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Henry James: Citations en anglais

“She is written in a foreign tongue.”

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Henry James livre The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

“If this was love, love had been overrated.”

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Henry James livre The Europeans

Source: The Europeans

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”

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William James, "Is Life Worth Living?," The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897).
Misattributed

“Things are always different than what they might be… If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.”

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Henry James livre The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.”

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Henry James livre The Ambassadors

The Ambassadors (1903), book V, ch. II.
Contexte: 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!

“Don't pass it by--the immediate, the real, the only, the yours.”

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“… and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.”

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Henry James livre The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out — you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”

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Henry James Roderick Hudson

Source: Roderick Hudson http://www.gutenberg.org/files/176/176.txt (1875), ch. I: Rowland.

“Excellence does not require perfection.”

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“When I am wicked I am in high spirits.”

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Henry James livre The Europeans

Source: The Europeans

“One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.”

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Henry James livre The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

“You wanted to look at life for yourself — but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional!”

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Henry James livre The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. LIV.

“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”

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Letter to H.G. Wells (10 July 1915).

“Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.”

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Henry James livre The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

“To take what there is, and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived — to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that — this doubtless is the right way to live.”

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Notebook entry, London, 1889-05-12.

“No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!”

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Henry James livre The Turn of the Screw

Source: The Turn of the Screw

“Life is a predicament which precedes death.”

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“Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live”

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Variante: ... I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live...

“Deep experience is never peaceful.”

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de Mauves http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/mauve10.txtMadame, Galaxy Magazine (February/March 1874), ch. V, reprinted in A Passionate Pilgrim (1875) and later in The Madonna of the Future and Other Tales (1879) and the New York Edition of James' works, vol. 13 (1908).

“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”

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Hawthorne http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/hjj/nhhj1.html, (1879) ch. I: The Early Years.

“She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.”

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Henry James livre The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

“The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.”

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Henry James livre The Wings of the Dove

Source: The Wings of the Dove