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Quote by Henry James
Life is a predicament which precedes death. - Henry James

Life is a predicament which precedes death. – Henry James

Other quotes by Henry James

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. – Henry James

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Imagination
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Henry James
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Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. – Henry James

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Summer
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Other Quotes from
Death
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I dont think kids have a problem with death. Its us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened. – Helena Bonham Carter

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Death

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. – Hannah Arendt

Category:
Death

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Death

I stay way from that area, and theres only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death. – Peter Steele

Category:
Death

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Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. – Alexander Hamilton

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I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think. – Leo Burnett

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respect

The sunrise never failed us yet. – Celia Thaxter

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Miscellaneous

Why cant somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Tradition