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.
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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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