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 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 JAMESTrue happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
HENRY JAMESShe is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
HENRY JAMESThe main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
HENRY JAMESDo not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
HENRY JAMESI don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
HENRY JAMESI mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
HENRY JAMESSorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
HENRY JAMESTo criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
HENRY JAMESYoung men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
HENRY JAMESIt is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
HENRY JAMESDeep experience is never peaceful.
HENRY JAMESYou wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
HENRY JAMESThe right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESJudge everyone and everything for yourself.
HENRY JAMES