You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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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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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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