Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
HENRY JAMESLive as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
More Henry James Quotes
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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