Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
HENRY JAMESLive all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
More Henry James Quotes
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I 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.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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