Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
HENRY JAMESHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
More Henry James Quotes
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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