When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
HENRY JAMESShe is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
More Henry James Quotes
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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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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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