Best quotes by Henry James on Life

Checkout quotes by Henry James on Life

• ‟ 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 kind.

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• ‟ There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

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• ‟ The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

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

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• ‟ It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

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• ‟ Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

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• ‟ Life is a predicament which precedes death.

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• ‟ Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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 should become a wonder to know what was left.

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