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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Henry James _ The Portrait of a Lady

    Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it.
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  5. Henry James _ The Portrait of a Lady

    It is enough to say that her perception of the endless interest of the place was such as might have been expected in a young woman of her intelligence and culture. She had always been fond of history, and here was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine. She had an imagination that kindled at the mention of great deeds, and wherever she turned some great deed had been acted. These things excited her but they had been quietly excited... To her own knowledge she was very happy; she would have even been willing to believe that these were to be on the whole the happiest hours of her life. The sense of mighty human past was upon her, but it was interfused in the strangest, suddenest, most capricious way, with fresh cool breath of the future. Her feelings were so mingled that she scarcely knew whither any of them would lead her, and she went about in a kind of repressed ecstasy of contemplation, seeing often in the things she looked at a great deal more than was there.
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  6. Henry James _ The Portrait of a Lady

    You young men have too many jokes. When there are no jokes you've nothing left.
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  7. Henry James _ The Portrait of a Lady

    She often wondered indeed if she ever had been, or ever could be, intimate with anyone.
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  8. Henry James _ The Portrait of a Lady

    She couldn't have told you whether it was because she was afraid, or because such a voice in the darkness seemed of necessity a boon; but she listened to him as she had never listened before; his words dropped deep into her soul."
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  9. Henry James _ The Portrait of a Lady

    Under certain circumstances there are few hours more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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  10. Henry James _ The Portrait of a Lady

    You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.
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  11. Henry James _ The Portrait of a Lady

    Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation...
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  12. Henry James _ The Portrait of a Lady

    Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.
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