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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.

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.

Henry James
Beautiful, Fall, Autumn
Henry James, Leon Edel (1956). “The American Essays”, p.23, Princeton University Press

It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way the red light, breaking at the close from under a low sombre sky, reached out in a long shaft and played over old wainscots, old tapestry, old gold, old colour.

Henry James
Autumn, Light, Sky
Henry James (2016). “The Beast in the Jungle: American Literature”, p.2, 谷月社

A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy ball, with the whole family gathered around to admire her before she goes.

Henry James
Daughter, Fall, Autumn
Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America”, p.370, Library of America

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