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Book: The Turn of the Screw
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  1. 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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  2. Henry James _ The Turn of the Screw

    I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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  3. Henry James _ The Turn of the Screw

    Make {the reader} think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures.
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  4. Henry James _ The Turn of the Screw

    -his indescribable little air of knowing nothing in the world but love.
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  5. Henry James _ The Turn of the Screw

    Of course I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was.
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  6. Henry James _ The Turn of the Screw

    He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.
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  7. Henry James _ The Turn of the Screw

    Of course I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was. But I gave myself up to it; it was an antidote to any pain, and I had more pains than one.
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  8. Henry James _ The Turn of the Screw

    No, no-there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don't know what I don't see-what I don't fear!"
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