The Figure in the Carpet Quotes

“It stretches, this little trick of mine, from book to book, and everything else, comparatively, plays over the surface of it. The order, the form, the texture of my books will perhaps some day constitute for the initiated a complete representation of it.”
― Henry James, The Figure in the Carpet

“I had thought him placid, and he was placid enough; such a surface was the hard polished glass that encased the bauble of his vanity.”
― Henry James, The Figure In The Carpet [with Biographical Introduction]

“All my life had taken refuge in my eyes, which the procession of events appeared to have committed itself to keep astare”
― Henry James, The Figure in the Carpet

“I’m as much in the dark as ever, though I’ve grown used in a sense to my obtuseness;”
― Henry James, The Figure in the Carpet