| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 30426 |
| QUOTATION: | He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Henry James (1843–1916), U.S. author. Anthology Library of the World’s Best Literature, vol. 12, introduction (1897).
Said of Nathaniel Hawthorne. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | James Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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