Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
HENRY JAMESLove has nothing to do with good reasons.
More Henry James Quotes
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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