Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESIt’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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