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Quote by Henry James
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always b

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

Other quotes by Henry James

We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. – Henry James

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Art
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Henry James
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The only success worth ones powder was success in the line of ones idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be? – Henry James

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Success
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Other Quotes from
Summer
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There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. – Celia Thaxter

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Summer

In summer, the song sings itself. – William Carlos Williams

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Summer

It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out. – Bill Watterson

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Summer

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. – John Lubbock, “Recreation,” The Use of Life, 1894

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Summer

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A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong. – Stella Adler

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The only reason for time is so that everything doesnt happen at once. – Albert Einstein

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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them. – Ninon de LEnclos

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We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. – Henry David Thoreau

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