Henry James Quotes
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Henry James Quotes
“She sat with him at any rate, in the grey clearance—as sad as a winter dawn—made by their meeting.”
“I like places in which things have happened — even if they're sad things.”
“He should see nothing, he should learn nothing; for him she would always wear a mask.”
“For it was of no use, she had an unquenchable desire to think well of herself.”
“I see you want us all to go. I don't know what you want to do." "I want to be alone," said Isabel.”
“I shall find you delightful; I think you're enchanting just as you are.”
“Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom.”
“It was nothing, but it was somehow everything—it was that something for each of them had happened.”
“The old-world quality in everything that she now saw had all the charm of strangeness.”
“I'm taking a trouble for you I never dreamed I should take for any human creature.”
“It has been everything for me to see you.”
“I don't think I can attempt to say now what it was. Some day—perhaps.”
“I don't know, upon my honour, what I'm doing.”
“I love you. It's because I love you that I'm here.”