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 JAMESCats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
More Henry James Quotes
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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