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 JAMESLive as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
More Henry James Quotes
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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