Quote by Henry James Download Open image ““Agreeable in the sense of floating there in infinite isolation and leisure that it was.”” — Henry James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“...when I've practiced acceptance, when I've floated instead of fought, when I've rested, even for a moment, on the surface instead of wrestling the… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.” — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
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“The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. Once there was this and that; and now-and the ship had gone.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
“But it’s like swimming underwater, you know? At first you feel as though you could go along forever, seeing everything from this new perspective,… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 you, and that's enough for the present. It will last a little yet. Here on my knees, with you dying in my arms, I'm happier than I've been for a long time. And I want you… — 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 telling her she was selfish. She was always planning out her own development, desiring her own perfection, observing her own progress. Her nature had for her own imagination a certain garden-like quality, a suggestion of perfume… — 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 Image
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had been dashed down and broken. It was gone.” — 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 Image
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 Image
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share Image
