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 JAMESHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
More Henry James Quotes
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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