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.
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
More Henry James Quotes
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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