And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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.
More Henry James Quotes
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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Young 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.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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