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gabiloue 's review for:
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
In lieu of writing a comprehensive review of this beautifully written, quite long, book, I will simply just share some of my favorite lines:
"She was really tired; she knew it, and knew she should pay for it on the morrow; but it was her habit at this period to carry exhaustion to the furthest point and confess to it only when dissimulation broke down."-pg99
"Isabel's chief dread in life at this period of her development was that she should appear narrow-minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should really be so."-pg114
"'I'm capable of nothing with regard to you,' he went on, 'but of just being infernally in love with you."-pg208
"'Do you know where you're drifting'...'No, I haven't the least idea, and I find it very pleasant not to know. A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can't see-that's my idea of happiness."-pg219
"With all her love of knowledge she had a natural shrinking from raising curtains and looking into unlighted corners. The love of knowledge coexisted in her mind with the finest capacity for ignorance."-pg251
"Apologies, Mrs Touchett intimated, were f no more use to her than bubbles, and she herself never dealt in such articles. One either did the thing or one didn't, and what one 'would' have done belonged to the sphere of the irrelevant, like the idea of a future life or of the origin of things."-pg374
"It was the tragic part of happiness; one's right was always made of the wrong of someone else."-pg401
"What kept Ralph alive was simply the fact that he had not yet seen enough of the person in the world in whom he was most interested: he was not yet satisfied."-pg446
"She was really tired; she knew it, and knew she should pay for it on the morrow; but it was her habit at this period to carry exhaustion to the furthest point and confess to it only when dissimulation broke down."-pg99
"Isabel's chief dread in life at this period of her development was that she should appear narrow-minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should really be so."-pg114
"'I'm capable of nothing with regard to you,' he went on, 'but of just being infernally in love with you."-pg208
"'Do you know where you're drifting'...'No, I haven't the least idea, and I find it very pleasant not to know. A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can't see-that's my idea of happiness."-pg219
"With all her love of knowledge she had a natural shrinking from raising curtains and looking into unlighted corners. The love of knowledge coexisted in her mind with the finest capacity for ignorance."-pg251
"Apologies, Mrs Touchett intimated, were f no more use to her than bubbles, and she herself never dealt in such articles. One either did the thing or one didn't, and what one 'would' have done belonged to the sphere of the irrelevant, like the idea of a future life or of the origin of things."-pg374
"It was the tragic part of happiness; one's right was always made of the wrong of someone else."-pg401
"What kept Ralph alive was simply the fact that he had not yet seen enough of the person in the world in whom he was most interested: he was not yet satisfied."-pg446