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 JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
More Henry James Quotes
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The 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.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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