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Henry James | the doing by the woman of the thing that gave her away
Henry James | Charlotte Stant; he took the relics out, one by one, and it was more and more, each instant, as if she were giving him time
Henry James | This power he could exert but vaguely ; the best exercise of it was to accept her decisions submissively - which indeed there was already an emotion in doing
Henry James | I have left her en l'air
Henry James | The house of fiction
George Eliot | One can begin so many things with a new person!—even begin to be a better man
George Eliot | A man may do wrong, and his will may rise clear out of it, though he can’t get his life clear. That’s a bad punishment
Henry James | the woman who wants a portrait of some non- existent (ncver-existent) person
Henry James | A truce to all subjects that are not superior! the particular thing I want to do now is not the ironic. I want to do something fine — a strong, large, important human episode
Henry James | They want, ever, the smaller, the slighter, the safer, the inferior thing
Henry James | She had arts and idiosyncrasies ... which were a daily grace if you lived with them
Henry James | to leave her untouched because no touch one could apply
Henry James | the feeling of a wasted past
Virginia Woolf | This difference of opinion disturbed Orlando, who had been perfectly happy until now. She began to think, was Nature beautiful or cruel
Henry James | the impression she produced
Henry James | she sat in the still drawing-room, given up to her meditation