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  1. Henry James _ Washington Square

    Oh," said Catherine, with some eagerness, "it doesn't take long to like a person-when once you begin.
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  2. Henry James _ Washington Square

    ... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.
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  3. Henry James _ The Portrait of a Lady

    ...there was always a sort of tacit understanding among women, born of the solidarity of the sex, that they should discover or invent lovers for each other...
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  4. Henry James _ The Portrait of a Lady

    Who was she, what was she that she should hold herself superior? What view of life, what design upon fate, what conception of happiness, had she that she pretended to be larger than this large occasion? If she would not do this, then she must do great things, she must do something greater.
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  5. Henry James _ Washington Square

    She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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  6. Henry James _ The Turn of the Screw

    There was nothing in the room the next minute but the sunshine and a sense that I must stay.
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  7. Henry James _ Lettres, 1900-1915

    Keep making the movements of life.
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  8. Henry James _ The Beast in the Jungle

    It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.
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  9. Henry James _ The Beast in the Jungle

    It was the truth, vivid and monstrous, that all the while he had waited the wait was itself his portion.
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  10. Henry James _ The Portrait of a Lady

    I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.
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  11. Henry James _ The Beast in the Jungle

    I'll watch with you.
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  12. Henry James _ The Art of Fiction

    Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test."
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