“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out — you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”
More from Henry James
“[She] is written in a foreign tongue.”
“I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only…”
“It has made me better, loving you.”
“It has made me better, loving you.”