She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
HENRY JAMESLife is a predicament which precedes death.
More Henry James Quotes
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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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