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 JAMESMoney’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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