Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
HENRY JAMESIt’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
More Henry James Quotes
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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