When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
HENRY JAMESThe power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
More Henry James Quotes
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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