54 Quotes About The-wings-of-the-dove
- Author Henry James
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It was as if her doom so floated her on that she couldn't stop.
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- Author Henry James
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That had been the real beginning—the beginning of everything else.
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- Author Henry James
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It was in seeing her that he felt what their interruption had been, and that they met across it even as persons whose adventures, on either side, in time and space, of the nature of perils and exiles, had had a peculiar strangeness. He wondered if he were as different for her as she herself had immediately appeared.
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- Author Amy Bloom
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Scenes are alluded to but not always witnessed—because in life, one sometimes arrives late, or not at all, to the big scene, even though one feels its aftershocks for years. Conversations are overheard, but not always completely understood, and sometimes, even the eavesdropping must be abruptly curtailed—as in life.
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- Author Henry James
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He was gathering everything up, everything he should tell her.
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- Author Henry James
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I don't think I can attempt to say now what it was. Some day—perhaps.
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- Author Henry James
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I'm taking a trouble for you I never dreamed I should take for any human creature.
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- Author Henry James
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It has been everything for me to see you.
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- Author Henry James
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The broken charm of the world about was broken into smaller pieces.
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