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“He had gone in late to see her, but evening hadn't settled and she was presented to him in that long fresh light of waning April days which affects us often with a sadness sharper than the greyest hours of autumn.”

Sadness Solemn Henry James The Beast In The Jungle

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“It's to be something you're merely to suffer?" "Well, say to wait for--to have to meet, to face, to see suddenly break out in my life; possibly destroying all further consciousness, possibly annihilating me; possibly, on the other hand, only altering everything, striking at the root of all my world and leaving me to the consequences, however they shape themselves.”

Consciousness Henry James Mind Altering The Beast In The Jungle

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“Then it hasn't been love," said May Bartram. "Well, I at least thought it was. I took it for that--I've taken it till now. It was agreeable, it was delightful, it was miserable," he explained.”

Love Miserable Delightful Henry James The Beast In The Jungle

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“They indeed had been wondrous for others while he was but wondrous for himself; which, however, was exactly the cause of his haste to renew the wonder by getting back, as he might put it, into his own presence. That had quickened his steps and checked his delay. If his visit was prompt it was because he had been separated so long from the part of himself that alone he now valued.”

Consciousness Awareness Self Growth Henry James The Beast In The Jungle

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