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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?”

Henry James

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

“One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.”

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Henry James książka Hawthorne

Hawthorne, ch. II: Early Manhood.

“People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.”

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Said by Mrs. Brookenham in The Awkward Age http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/akage10.txt (1899), book VI, ch. III.

“He would agree that life is a little worth living — or worth living a little; but would remark that, unfortunately, to live little enough, we have to live a great deal.”

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Henry James książka Hawthorne

Hawthorne, ch. V: The Three American Novels.

“Life's too short for chess.”

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Henry James Byron, Our Boys (1875), Act I
Misattributed

“She had promised him she would consider his question [of marrying him] […]. But this was not the case; she was wondering if she were not a cold, hard, priggish person, and, on her at last getting up and going rather quickly back to the house, felt, as she had said to her friend, really frightened at herself.”

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Źródło: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XII.

“I seemed to float not into clearness, but into a darker obscure, and within a minute there had come to me out of my very pity the appalling alarm of his being perhaps innocent. It was for the instant confounding and bottomless, for if he were innocent, what then on earth was I?”

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Henry James książka The Turn of the Screw

Źródło: The Turn of the Screw (1898), Ch. XXIV.

“The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy. Consistency was in itself distinction, and what was talent but the art of being completely whatever it was that one happened to be?”

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Henry James książka The Next Time

"The Next Time," The Yellow Book, vol. VI (July 1895).

“She often wondered indeed if she ever had been, or ever could be, intimate with anyone. She had an ideal of friendship as well as of several other sentiments, which it failed to seem to her in this case – it had not seemed to her in other cases – that the actual completely expressed.”

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Henry James książka Portret damy

Źródło: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XIX.

“Vereker’s secret, my dear man — the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the carpet.”

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The Figure in the Carpet http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/fgcpt10h.htm (1896).

“There are few things more exciting to me, in short, than a psychological reason.”

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The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)

“The fatal futility of Fact.”

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Henry James książka The Spoils of Poynton

The Spoils of Poynton.
Prefaces (1907-1909)

“If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.”

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Said to Hamlin Garland in 1906 and quoted by Garland in Roadside Meetings (1930; reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-417-90788-6, ch. XXXVI: Henry James at Rye (p. 461).

“I still, in presence of life… have reactions — as many as possible… It's, I suppose, because I am that queer monster, the artist, an obstinate finality, an inexhaustible sensibility. Hence the reactions — appearances, memories, many things, go on playing upon it with consequences that I note and "enjoy" (grim word!) noting. It all takes doing — and I do. I believe I shall do yet again — it is still an act of life.”

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Letter to Henry Adams (21 March 1914).

“It was as if, at moments, we were perpetually coming into sight of subjects before which we must stop short, turning suddenly out of alleys that we perceived to be blind, closing with a little bang that made us look at each other — for, like all bangs, it was something louder than we had intended— the doors we had indiscreetly opened.”

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Henry James książka The Turn of the Screw

Źródło: The Turn of the Screw (1898), Ch. XIII.

“He had picked up his hat, which he had brought in, and stood twirling it in a way that gave me, even as I was just nearly reaching port, a perverse horror of what I was doing. To do it in ANY way was an act of violence, for what did it consist of but the obtrusion of the idea of grossness and guilt on a small helpless creature who had been for me a revelation of the possibilities of beautiful intercourse? Wasn't it base to create for a being so exquisite a mere alien awkwardness? I suppose I now read into our situation a clearness it couldn't have had at the time, for I seem to see our poor eyes already lighted with some spark of a prevision of the anguish that was to come.”

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Henry James książka The Turn of the Screw

Źródło: The Turn of the Screw (1898), Ch. XXIII.

“Mr Touchett used to think that she reminded him of his wife when his wife was in her teens. It was because she was fresh and natural and quick to understand, to speak – so many characteristics of her niece – that he had fallen in love with Mrs Touchett.”

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Henry James książka Portret damy

Źródło: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. VI.

“The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be.”

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Henry James książka The Turn of the Screw

Introduction.
The Turn of the Screw (1898)

“Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.”

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Henry James książka Washington Square

Washington Square (1881), ch. XIV.

“The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.”

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Variant text: The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does compete with life.
The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)

“To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.”

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Henry James książka What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew.
Prefaces (1907-1909)

“In art economy is always beauty.”

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Henry James książka The Altar of the Dead

The Altar of the Dead.
Prefaces (1907-1909)

“She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action.”

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Henry James książka Portret damy

Źródło: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XXXVIII

“If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?”

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"The Journal of the Brothers de Goncourt," Fortnightly Review (October 1888).

“There are bad manners everywhere, but an aristocracy is bad manners organized.”

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The Point of View HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=FrQRAAAAYAAJ&q=%22there+are+bad+manners+everywhere+but+an+aristocracy+is+bad+manners+organized%22&pg=PA289#v=onepage (1882)