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„Smutek jest niejako chorobą, poddaniem się, przeciwieństwem akcji. Działanie – jakiekolwiek działanie – stanowi więc ucieczkę, może nawet do pewnego stopnia lekarstwo.”

Henry James książka Portret damy

Portret damy

„Czymże jest postać, jeśli nie czynnikiem determinującym zdarzenie? I czymże jest zdarzenie, jeśli nie ilustracją postaci?”

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Źródło: Sztuka fikcji

„Można zadać sto pytań tym grubo ciosanym olbrzymom, kiedy pochylają się i przypatrują swoim upadłym towarzyszom.”

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o Stonehenge.
Źródło: Rosemary Burton, Richard Cavendish, Cuda Świata. Przewodnik po skarbach cywilizacji

„Zakochana dziewczyna nie ma wolnego wyboru, ale źródło błędu jest w niej samej.”

Henry James książka Portret damy

Portret damy

„Skok cywilizacji w tę otchłań krwi i ciemności (…) to pożegnanie całego długiego wieku, podczas którego sądziliśmy, że świat (…) będzie się stopniowo polepszać.”

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w liście do przyjaciela z 1914, nazajutrz po wypowiedzeniu wojny Niemcom przez Wielką Brytanię.
Źródło: Howard Zinn, Ludowa historia Stanów Zjednoczonych. Od roku 1492 do dziś, tłum. Andrzej Wojtasik, Wyd. Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2016, s. 465.

Henry James: Cytaty po angielsku

“She is written in a foreign tongue.”

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Henry James książka Portret damy

Źródło: The Portrait of a Lady

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

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Henry James książka The Europeans

Źródło: 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 książka Portret damy

Źródło: 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 książka The Ambassadors

The Ambassadors (1903), book V, ch. II.
Kontekst: 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 książka Portret damy

Źródło: 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

Źródło: 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 książka The Europeans

Źródło: 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 książka Portret damy

Źródło: 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 książka Portret damy

Źródło: 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 książka Portret damy

Źródło: 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 książka The Turn of the Screw

Źródło: 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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Wariant: ... 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).