Pictures and Other Passages from Henry James — Henry James

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"John La Farge became at once, in breaking on our view, quite the most interesting person we knew, and for a time remained so, he became a great many other things beside - a character, above all, if there ever was one; but he opened up to us, though perhaps to me in particular, who could absorb all that was given me on those suggestive lines, prospects and possibilities that made the future flush and swarm."
Long ago in the 'eighties, to me a bookish girl whose world was sharply divided into books which were delightful, and life which was at best pleasant only in streaks, there came, not in person but in his books, the magic influence of a new author, Henry James. And thus the miracle happened; for books were to me no longer a world apart in which I happily wandered, but an integral portion of my individual life, and the two worlds became indissolubly mingled, so that the future did indeed "flush and swarm" for me with "prospects and possibilities" many-tinted as the rainbow.
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