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Letter "H" » Henry James Quotes
«The right time is ANY time that one is still so lucky as to have.»
Author: Henry James
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The Right Time
«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 be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, peolpe of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of a night; we wake up to it again for ever and ever; we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.»
Author: Henry James
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Life
«Deep experience is never peaceful.»
Author: Henry James
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peaceful
«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 land.»
«In art economy is always beauty.»
Author: Henry James
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economy
«What could the thing that was to happen to him be, after all, but just this thing that had begun to happen? Her dying, her death, his consequent solitude - that was what he had figured as the beast in the jungle.»
«I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.»
Author: Henry James
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qualification
«Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.»
Author: Henry James
«The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.»
«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 you're nice to the second housemaid.»
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