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 JAMESTo establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
More Henry James Quotes
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like 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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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