Alice James
Writer
1848-08-07 – 1892-03-06
Alice James was an American diarist and writer.
Quotes by Alice James
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If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich...
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One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
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One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
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If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich...
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What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
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Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
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How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
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