I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
More Henry James Quotes
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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True 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.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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