“I don't know, upon my honour, what I'm doing.”
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Famous Henry James Quotes
“I love you. It's because I love you that I'm here.”
“If you decline to understand me I wholly decline to understand you.”
“The broken charm of the world about was broken into smaller pieces.”
“There were immensities between you.”
“He was gathering everything up, everything he should tell her.”
“Don't you know?" "How should I, my dear—in the absence of everything?”
“Because she has seen for herself. I've told her nothing. She's a person who does see.”
“That's the least part of it—after it nothing will matter.”
“He saw her try, for a time, to appear to consider it; but he saw her also not consider it.”
“You look upset—you've certainly been tormented. You're not well.”
“Your desire is to escape everything?" "Everything.”
“Yes, one has read; but this is beyond any book.”
“That had been the real beginning—the beginning of everything else.”
“Don't fail me. It would kill me.”
“I'm sure you've an excellent spirit; but don't try to bear more things than you need.”
“It was as if her doom so floated her on that she couldn't stop.”
“Do you imagine I can see you suffer and not say a word?”
“se guardo indietro, mi pare che tutto sia stato pura sofferenza.”
“The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.”
“Whether or no being hopelessly vulgar is being 'bad' is a question for the metaphysicians.”
“London is on the whole the most possible form of life.”
“She was too young, too impatient to live, too unacquainted with pain.”