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 JAMESDo not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
More Henry James Quotes
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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