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Been Quotes by Henry James
- The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand…
- It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.
- The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves…
- I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I had seen her…
- Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
- My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which…
- If this was love, love had been overrated.
- And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.
- To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that.…
- I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore…
- She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.
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