If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESDon’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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