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Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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You think too much.' 'I suppose I do but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
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