Cloudy Quote by Henry James

“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.”

Henry James

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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

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“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.”

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“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…

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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 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…

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“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,…

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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 too had been dashed down and broken. It was gone.”

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I ought to tell you I'm probably your cousin.

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“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing…

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London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

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If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

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The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.

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He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves.' Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since…

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