"Life is a predicament which precedes death."
-Henry James
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"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.“
-Henry James
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"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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"Deep experience is never peaceful."
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"The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?"
-Henry James
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"I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect."
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"A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals."
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
-H. G. Wells
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