You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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