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.
HENRY JAMESThough there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
More Henry James Quotes
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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