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The Wings of the Dove
Henry James
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.”
“Her memory's your love. You want no other.”
“It was the air she wanted and the world she would now exclusively choose; the quiet chambers, nobly overwhelming, rich but slightly veiled, opened out round her and made her presently say 'If I could lose myself here!' There were people, people in plenty, but, admirably, no personal question. It was immense, outside, the personal question; but she had blissfully left it outside...".”
“I used to call her, in my stupidity — for want of anything better — a dove”
“She found herself, for the first moment, looking at the mysterious portrait through tears. Perhaps it was her tears that made it just then so strange and fair ... the face of a young woman, all splendidly drawn, down to the hands, and splendidly dressed ... And she was dead, dead, dead”
“He had thought, no doubt, from the day he was born, much more than he had acted; except indeed that he remembered thoughts--a few of them--which at the moment of their coming to him had thrilled him almost like adventures.”
“This was the sound he cherished when alone in the stillness of his rooms. He sought and guarded the stillness, so that it might prevail there till the inevitable sounds of life, once more, comparatively coarse and harsh, should smother and deaden it—doubtless by the same process with which they would officiously heal the ache in his soul that was somehow one with it.”
“No,’ she sadly insisted—‘men don’t know. They know in such matters almost nothing but what women show them.”
“I don’t like it, but I’m a person, thank goodness, who can do what I don’t like.”
“When Milly smiled it was a public event—when she didn’t it was a chapter of history. They”
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Book Keywords:
memory-live, peace, solitude