“Though I couldn't make out what she was talking of I was terribly frightened; the absence of a clue gave such a… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Be not afraid of life believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“It's all a mere mistake and a worry and a joke—and we'll go home as fast as we can!” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She wished to say everything; she was afraid he might die before she had done so.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Fear, unfortunately, is a very big thing, and there's a great variety of kinds.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“We don't run away from people unless we fear them and... we don't fear them unless we know that we are unarmed.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and… — Henry James Copy Share Image
No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“To live in the world of creation—to get into it and stay in it—to frequent it and haunt it—to think intently and… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.” — Henry James Copy Share
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but… — Henry James Copy Share
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by… — Henry James Copy Share
“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,… — Henry James Copy Share
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had… — Henry James Copy Share
“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing… — Henry James Copy Share
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James Copy Share
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share
Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all… — Henry James Copy Share
“It was the air she wanted and the world she would now exclusively choose; the quiet chambers, nobly overwhelming, rich but slightly veiled, opened… — Henry James Copy Share
