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Henry James
“An unknown man in a lonely place is a permitted object of fear to a young woman privately bred.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“Oh, it was a trap — not designed but deep — to my imagination, to my delicacy, perhaps to my vanity; to whatever in me was most excitable.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“But even while they pretend to be lost in their fairy-tale they're steeped in their vision of the dead restored to them.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“I was dazzled by their loveliness.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“What's he like?"

"I've been dying to tell you. But he's like nobody.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“There was something between them."

"There was everything.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“They haven't been good — they've only been absent. It has been easy to live with them because they're simply leading a life of their own.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“But if he isn't a gentleman — "

"What is he? He's a horror.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“She believed me, I was sure, absolutely; if she hadn't I don't know what would have become of me, for I couldn't have borne the strain alone.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“He fairly glittered in the gloom.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“There was literally, in the ebbing . . . an extraordinarily sweet sadness.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“It was the first time, in a manner, that I had known space and air and freedom, all the music of summer and all the mystery of nature.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“The day lingered and the last calls of the last birds sounded, in a flushed sky, from the old trees.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“But I was to be later on so much more overwhelmed that this mere dawn of alarm was a comparatively human chill.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“But it was as if I had been looking at him for years and had known him always.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“The flash of this knowledge — for it was knowledge in the midst of dread — produced in me the most extraordinary effect.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“It was the idea . . . that led me straight out . . . of the inner chamber of my dread.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“We were cut off, really, together; we were united in our danger.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“I find that I really hang back; but I must take my horrid plunge.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“There came suddenly an hour after which, as I look back, the business seems to me to have been all pure suffering.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“It was practically the end of everything. I met his kiss and I had to make, while I folded him for a moment in my arms, the most stupendous effort not to cry.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“When I'm bad I am bad!”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“And to ply them with that evil still, to keep up the work of demons, is what brings the others back.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“The element of the unnamed and untouched became, between us, greater than any other.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“How can I retrace to-day the strange steps of my obsession?”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“I reflected that I had already, with him, hurt myself beyond repair.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“These three words from her were in a flash like the glitter of a drawn blade, the jostle of the cup that my hand for weeks and weeks had held high and full to the brim and that now, even before speaking, I felt overflow in a deluge.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“How on the other hand could I make a reference without a new plunge into the hideous obscure?”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
“Recibí su beso y, mientras lo estrechaba un momento entre mis brazos, tuve que hacer el más enorme esfuerzo para no llorar.”
― Henry James, Otra vuelta de tuerca
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