Heart Quotes by Henry James

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

— Henry James

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

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“The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all.”

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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something…

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“And her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world.”

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Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have…

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“Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she might find herself some day in a difficult position, so that she…

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“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic; it was…

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“Not to give away the woman one loved, but to back her up in her mistakes -- once they had gone a…

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“Few of the men she saw seemed worth an expenditure of imagination, and it made her smile to think that one of…

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“She [was] . . . one of those convenient types who don't keep you explaining --minds with doors as numerous as the…

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“She had never yet encountered a personage so exotic, and she always felt more at ease in the presence of anything strange.…

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“She was a plain-faced old woman, without graces and without any great elegance, but with an extreme respect for her own motives.…

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“It was the air she wanted and the world she would now exclusively choose; the quiet chambers, nobly overwhelming, rich but slightly…

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“To her mind there was nothing of the infinite about Mrs. Penniman; Catherine saw her all at once, as it were, and…

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“It wouldn't be the first time she had seen herself obliged to accept with smothered irony other people's interpretation of her conduct.…

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“She couldn't have told you whether it was because she was afraid, or because such a voice in the darkness seemed of…

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“She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage…

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“little and then gone back.  Miss Mavis hadn’t turned up—and she didn’t turn up.  The stewardess began to look for her—she hadn’t…

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“She knew that this silent, motionless portal opened into the street; if the sidelights had not been filled with green paper, she…

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She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of…

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“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the…

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“It was as if these depths, constantly bridged over by a structure that was firm enough in spite of its lightness and…

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“She looked about her again, on her feet, at her scattered melancholy comrades -- some of them so melancholy as to be…

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The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.…

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“She was a young person of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active. It had been her fortune to possess a finer…

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She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although…

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“She often appeared at my chambers to talk over his lapses; for if, as she declared, she had washed her hands of…

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“If she had troubles she must keep them to herself, and if life was difficult it would not make it easier to…

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“The world lay before her—she could do whatever she chose. There was a deep thrill in it all, but for the present…

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“She had a new feeling, the feeling of danger; on which a new remedy rose to meet it, the idea of an…

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Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next…

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“Catherine, who was extremely modest, had no desire to shine, and on most social occasions, as they are called, you would have…

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“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear…

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The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

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“Catherine had not understood all that she said; her attention was given to enjoying Marian’s ease of manner and flow of ideas.”

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“She knew even intimate things about him that he hadn't yet told her and perhaps never would. He wasn't unaware that he…

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