Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
HENRY JAMESLife is a predicament which precedes death.
More Henry James Quotes
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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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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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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