54 Quotes About The-wings-of-the-dove
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I don't know, upon my honour, what I'm doing.
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It was nothing, but it was somehow everything—it was that something for each of them had happened.
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I do nothing for any one in the world but you. But for you I'll do anything.""Good, good," said Kate. "That's how I like you."He waited again an instant. "Then you swear to it?""To 'it'? To what?""Why, that you do 'like' me. For it's only for that, you know, that I'm letting you do—well, God knows what with me.
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I dare say," Densher granted, "we were both thinking of her.""You were neither of you thinking of any one else.
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Satisfied to die in the flower of her youth?""Well, at peace with you.""Oh, 'peace'!" he murmured with his eyes on the fire."The peace of having loved."He raised his eyes to her. "Is that peace?""Of having been loved," she went on. "That is. Of having," she wound up, "realised her passion. She wanted nothing more. She had had all she wanted.
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The vice in the air, otherwise, was too much like the breath of fate.
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She never wanted the truth . . . She wanted you. She would have taken from you what you could give her, and been glad of it even if she had known it false. You might have lied to her from pity, and she have seen you and felt you lie, and yet—since it was all for tenderness—she would have thanked you and blessed you and clung to you but the more. For that was your strength, my dear man—that she loves you with passion.
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She was all too sunk in the inevitable, and the abysmal.
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If you decline to understand me I wholly decline to understand you.
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