When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
HENRY JAMESHis beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
More Henry James Quotes
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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