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Life Quotes by Henry James
- It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast…
- If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other…
- It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life.
- It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.
- ...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit…
- The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition…
- No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles,…
- I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.
- Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be…
- Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
- The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
- Life is a predicament which precedes death.
- Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
- 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…
- She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
- She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart…
- Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that…
- Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to…
- To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and…
- You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the…
- It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
- I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.
- ...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…
- It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
- He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle