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 JAMESThe artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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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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