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.
HENRY JAMESExcellence does not require perfection.
More Henry James Quotes
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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