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Henry James bol anglo-americký spisovateľ, ktorý strávil väčšinu svojej kariéry v Spojenom kráľovstve. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. apríl 1843 – 28. február 1916
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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.”

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.”

Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady

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

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

Henry James kniha Washington Square

Zdroj: Washington Square

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

Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady

Zdroj: The Portrait of a Lady

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

Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady

Zdroj: 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.”

Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady

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

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

Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady

Zdroj: The Portrait of a Lady

“Love has nothing to do with good reasons.”

Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady

Zdroj: 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?”

Henry James kniha The Ambassadors

Zdroj: 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.”

Henry James kniha The Portrait of a Lady

Zdroj: The Portrait of a Lady