A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
HENRY JAMESI 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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