It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
HENRY JAMESShe had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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