Henry James
"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."
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"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."
"نعمل في الظلام، نفعل ما نستطيع، ونجود"
Henry James
The Middle Years
"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."
"يتحدث الناس عن الضمير، لكنني أرى أنه يكفي أن"
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."
"ثلاثة أمور جوهرية في حياة الإنسان: أولها أن تكون لطيفًا، وثانيها أن تكون لطيفًا، وثالثها أن تكون لطيفًا."
Henry James
"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."
"المال رفيق بغيض إن تتبعته، لكنه لقاء فاتن إن صادفته."
Henry James
"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."
"نعمل في الظلام، نفعل ما بوسعنا، ونعطي ما نملك. شكّنا هو شغفنا، وشغفنا هو مهمتنا. وما عدا ذلك فجنون الفن."
Henry James
"The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master."
"إن ملامح الطبيعة والحضارة في وطننا هذا، تشكل إلى حدٍ بعيد، حقلاً أدبياً خصباً ووافراً. بيد أنها لن تبوح بخفاياها إلا لخيال متوقد، ذي بصيرة نافذة. وللكتابة ببراعة وجدارة عن قضايا أمريكا، يحتاج المرء، أكثر من أي مكان آخر، أن يكون سيداً متمرساً."
Henry James
"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."
"إن الفن هو ما يصنع الحياة، ويخلق الاهتمام، ويمنح الأهمية... ولا أعرف بديلاً قط لقوة عمليته وجمالها."
Henry James
"However British you may be, I am more British still."
"مهما بلغتَ من البريطانية، فأنا أشد"
Henry James
"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."
"لو قُدِّر لي أن أحيا حياتي من جديد، لاخترت أن أكون أمريكيًا. لغرقتُ في أمريكا، ولما عرفتُ أرضًا سواها."
Henry James
"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."
"يتطلب الأمر تاريخًا عظيمًا لإنتاج قدر ضئيل من الأدب."
Henry James
"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition."
"يتطلب الأمر تاريخًا لا متناهيًا لصنع حتى القليل من التقاليد."
Henry James
"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."
"شباب هذه الطبقة لا يفعلون لأنفسهم شيئًا مما يمكنهم أن يجدوا من يفعله لهم، وإنما يسيرون بفتنة الآخرين وتفانيهم وخرافاتهم. وهؤلاء الآخرون في تسع وتسعين حالة من المئة هم نساء."
Henry James
"A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals."
"الرجل الذي يدعي فهم النساء سوء أدب. أما أن"
Henry James
"I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect."
"أعشق الظروف، فهي المؤهلات الوحيدة التي أحترمها حقًا."
Henry James
"The real offence as she ultimately perceived was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park."
Henry James
"The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?"
Henry James
"Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there."
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
"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
"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."
Henry James
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