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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

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. – Henry James

Category:
Coffee (or Tea)
Author
Henry James
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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if youre nice to the second housemaid. – Henry James

Category:
alone
Author
Henry James
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Other Quotes from
Death
category

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. – Ernest Hemingway

Category:
Death

Hamlet is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death whats real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad. – Michael Sheen

Category:
Death

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: lifes highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. – Soren Kierkegaard

Category:
Death

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, thats the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. Thats the American story, again and again. – Billy Corgan

Category:
Death

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Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England. – Horace Porter

Category:
smile

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didnt get a divorce for almost a year. – Hedy Lamarr

Category:
Marriage

The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path. – Bhagavad Gita

Category:
Difficulty

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
Religion