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Life is a predicament which precedes death. - Henry James

Life is a predicament which precedes death. – Henry James

Other quotes by Henry James

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. – Henry James

Category:
Civilization
Author
Henry James
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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way. – Henry James

Category:
Tact, Tactfulness
Author
Henry James
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Other Quotes from
Death
category

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. – Anais Nin

Category:
Death

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Death

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. – William Wycherley

Category:
Death

I wouldnt feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy – Id be bored to death. – Joaquin Phoenix

Category:
Death

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