Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
HENRY JAMESI 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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 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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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 feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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