Henry James, from The Portrait of a Lady
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It has made me better, loving you.
Henry James / The Portrait of a Lady
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She had always been fond of history, and here was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.
-- Henry James
(Roma)
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Audrey Benjaminsen’s illustrations for Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw.
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I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.
Henry James
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I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.
Henry James
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I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.
Henry James
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things in 19th century novels that bring me an immense amount of joy
a passive aggressive pianoforte moment
any country dance scene
flower symbolism
the love interest telling the heroine he loves her mid panic attack
a women rejecting a marriage proposal from a man she hates
hands
when lore gets dropped via letter
and, most importantly, the First Name Drop™
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Henry James, from The Portrait of a Lady
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rather than going to bed, sit up reading, by the light of a couple of candles, an old book of last-century fiction
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the sweet melancholy of her name
Henry James, The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, 1868
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“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.”
— Henry James
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