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One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
— Alice James
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Alice James
diarist, writer
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1848 – 1892
Alice James was an American diarist, and the younger sister of novelist Henry James and philosopher and psychologist William James. Her relationship with William was unusually close, and she seems to have been badly affected by his marriage. James suffered lifelong health problems that were generally dismissed as hysteria in the style of the day. She is best known for her published diaries.
All Quotes by Alice James
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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
— Alice James
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One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
— Alice James
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What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.
— Alice James
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Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.
— Alice James