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 JAMESTo establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
More Henry James Quotes
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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