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Henry James Quote: “The strangest thing of all for Milly was perhaps the uplifted assurance and indifference with which she could simply give back the particular bland stare that appeared in such cases to mark civilisation at its highest. It.”
Henry James Quote: “You see, people forget you.”
Henry James Quote: “She was all too sunk in the inevitable, and the abysmal.”
Henry James Quote: “He said at another time that she had no heart; and he added in a moment that she had given it all away – in small pieces, like a frosted wedding-cake.”
Henry James Quote: “I’m taking a trouble for you I never dreamed I should take for any human creature.”
Henry James Quote: “Which of my two critics was I to believe? I didn’t worry about it and very soon made up my mind they were both idiots.”
Henry James Quote: “She had once heard an enthusiastic musician, out of patience with a gifted bungler, declare that a fine voice is really an obstacle to singing properly; and it occurred to her that it might perhaps be equally true that a beautiful face is an obstacle to the acquisition of charming manners.”
Henry James Quote: “With all her love of knowledge she had a natural shrinking from raising curtains and looking into unlighted corners.”
Henry James Quote: “His mind contained several millions of facts, packed too closely together for the light breeze of the imagination to draw through the mass.”
Henry James Quote: “Isabel, as she herself grew older, became acquainted with revulsions, with disgusts; there were days when the world looked black and she asked herself with some sharpness what it was that she was pretending to live for.”
Henry James Quote: “Yes, one has read; but this is beyond any book.”
Henry James Quote: “He felt the old bitterness, which he had tried so hard to swallow, rise again in his throat, and he knew there are disappointments that last as long as life.”
Henry James Quote: “I don’t know, upon my honour, what I’m doing.”
Henry James Quote: “It has been everything for me to see you.”
Henry James Quote: “She was too young, too impatient to live, too unacquainted with pain.”
Henry James Quote: “It’s her general air of being some one in particular that strikes me. Who is this rare creature, and what is she? Where did you find her, and how did you make her acquaintance?”
Henry James Quote: “The vice in the air, otherwise, was too much like the breath of fate.”
Henry James Quote: “You’ve not only dried up my tears; you’ve dried up my soul.”
Henry James Quote: “The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance – all strewn with crumpled playbills.”
Henry James Quote: “Deep in her soul – it was the deepest thing there – lay a belief that if a certain light should dawn she could give herself completely; but this image, on the whole, was too formidable to be attractive.”
Henry James Quote: “But for a nice girl you do attract the most unnatural people.”
Henry James Quote: “But she had after all a better reason for coming to Rome than that she cared for it so little. Her friend easily recognized it, and with it the worth of the other’s fidelity. She had crossed the stormy ocean in midwinter because she had guessed that Isabel was sad.”
Henry James Quote: “The days, whether lapsing or lingering, were a stiff reality; the suppression of anxiety was a thin idea; the taste of life itself was the taste of suspense.”
Henry James Quote: “It would have been impossible to carry a bad name with a greater sweetness of innocence.”
Henry James Quote: “It was for the instant confounding and bottomless, for if he were innocent, what then on earth was I?”
Henry James Quote: “To live in such a place was, for Isabel, to hold to her ear all day a shell of the sea of the past. This vague eternal rumor kept her imagination awake.”
Henry James Quote: “Whatever life you lead you must put your soul in it – to make any sort of success of it; and from the moment you do that it ceases to be romance, I assure you: it becomes grim reality!”
Henry James Quote: “She was glad to pause, however, on the edge of this larger adventure; there was such a thrill even in the preliminary hovering.”
Henry James Quote: “Ah, I must see Ralph!” Isabel wailed; not in resentment, not in the quick passion her companion had looked for; but in a tone of far-reaching, infinite sadness.”
Henry James Quote: “It’s you who draw me out. I exist in you. Not in others.”
Henry James Quote: “I love you. It’s because I love you that I’m here.”
Henry James Quote: “It had been her fortune to possess a finer mind than most of the persons among whom her lot was cast; to have a larger perception of surrounding facts and to care for knowledge that was tinged with the unfamiliar.”
Henry James Quote: “Nothing could be happier, in general, than to seem dazzling, but she had a perverse unwillingness to glitter by arrangement.”
Henry James Quote: “You’ve got no excuse for being bored anywhere. When I was your age I had never heard of such a thing.”
Henry James Quote: “Heaven deliver me from my friends!”
Henry James Quote: “I don’t go off easily, but when I’m touched, it’s for life. It’s for life, Miss Archer, it’s for life.”
Henry James Quote: “Her nature had, in her conceit, a certain garden-like quality, a suggestion of perfume and murmuring boughs, of shady bowers and lengthening vistas, which made her feel that introspection was, after all, an exercise in the open air, and that a visit to the recesses of one’s spirit was harmless when one returned from it with a lapful of roses.”
Henry James Quote: “I cling to some saving romance in things.”
Henry James Quote: “For it was of no use, she had an unquenchable desire to think well of herself.”
Henry James Quote: “Forbidden ground was the question of the return of the dead in general and of whatever, in especial, might survive, in memory, of the friends little children had lost.”
Henry James Quote: “I shall always think of you; I shall never think of anyone else. I came to England simply because you are here; I couldn’t stay at home after you had gone: I hated the country because you were not in it. If I like this country at present it is only because it holds you.”
Henry James Quote: “She does everything beautifully. She’s complete.”
Henry James Quote: “Yes, you’ve something to hide. It’s none of my business – very true. But I love you,” said Caspar Goodwood.”
Henry James Quote: “Don’t people always feel better just before the end?”
Henry James Quote: “She sat with him at any rate, in the grey clearance – as sad as a winter dawn – made by their meeting.”
Henry James Quote: “He has made me believe in true love; I never did before!”
Henry James Quote: “Oh, handsome – very, very,” I insisted; “wonderfully handsome. But infamous.” She slowly came back to me. “Miss Jessel – was infamous.” She once more took my hand in both her own, holding it as tight as if to fortify me against the increase of alarm I might draw from this disclosure. “They were both infamous,” she finally said.”
Henry James Quote: “The broken charm of the world about was broken into smaller pieces.”
Henry James Quote: “If you’re ever bored, take my advice and get married. Your wife, indeed, may bore you in that case, but you’ll never bore yourself.”
Henry James Quote: “Besides, I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I think, is more honourable than not to judge at all. I don’t wish to be a mere sheep in the flock; I wish to choose my fate and know something of human affairs beyond what other people think it compatible with propriety to tell me.”
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