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 JAMESI don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
More Henry James Quotes
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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 power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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