Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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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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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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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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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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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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