The Diary of a Man of Fifty

The Diary of a Man of Fifty, by Henry James
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Title: The Diary of a Man of Fifty
Author: Henry James Release Date: May 8, 2005 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #2426]
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Transcribed from the 1887 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE DIARY OF A MAN OF FIFTY by Henry James
Florence, April 5th, 1874.—They told me I should find Italy greatly changed; and in seven-and-twenty years there is room for changes. But to me everything is so perfectly the same that I seem to be living my youth over again; all the forgotten impressions of that enchanting time come back to me. At the moment they were powerful enough; but they afterwards faded away. What in the world became of them? Whatever becomes of such things, in the long intervals of consciousness? Where do they hide themselves away? in what unvisited cupboards and crannies of our being do they preserve themselves? They are like the lines of a letter written in sympathetic ink; hold the letter to the fire for a while and the grateful warmth brings out the ...