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"But that is just what does not happen in the case of Mr. James's people. They are merged in the background so that you never can get behind them, and fairly feel and see them all round. Europe doesn't detach them; nothing does. 'There they are,' as he keeps making his people say in all his late books, when they are not calling one another dear lady, and dear man, and prodigious and magnificent, and of a vagueness or
— Feb 23, 2019 11:38PM
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Inna
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I write and find greater happiness in writing than I ever did; and this, my dear old friend, is clumsily leading up to the hope and belief that you will soon begin writing again.
— Mar 23, 2019 04:49AM
Inna
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If that might have been she would have supported this pain better than I; women have more courage, more strength than men; she would have known what to do, and I do not yet.
— Mar 23, 2019 02:15AM
Inna
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Life still has both hands on your shoulders & will insist on showing you how much she is still concerned with you.
— Mar 23, 2019 02:06AM
Inna
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Boston is a beautiful town and Cambridge a wonder of leaves and grass -- but with graves under them everywhere."
— Mar 23, 2019 02:01AM
Inna
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I could not have believed that life still held an experience so sweet for me.
— Mar 23, 2019 01:51AM
Inna
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What he does is simply to show you those people mainly on the outside, as you mainly see people in the world, and to let you divine them and their ends from what they do and say.
— Feb 24, 2019 02:10AM
Inna
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As for social conditions, predicaments, orders of things, where shall we find the like of the wonders wrought in The Awkward Age?
— Feb 24, 2019 01:49AM
Inna
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I have a theory that it is not well to penetrate every recess of an author's meaning. It robs him of the charm of mystery, and the somewhat labyrinthine construction of Mr. James's later sentences lends itself to the practice of the self-denial necessary to the preservation of this charm. What I feel sure of is that he has a meaning in it all, and that by and by, perhaps when I least expect it, I shall surprise his
— Feb 24, 2019 01:48AM
Inna
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Why should he want to picture such life?"
"Perhaps because it exists."
— Feb 24, 2019 01:21AM
"Perhaps because it exists."
