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 JAMESIt takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
More Henry James Quotes
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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