We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
More Henry James Quotes
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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