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 JAMESI hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
More Henry James Quotes
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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