Alice James Quotes

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• I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
• It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
• The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
• 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;…
• Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
• 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…
• What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.
• Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.
• It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed…
• 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…
• I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
• Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
• You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
• I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have…
• 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.
• One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
• What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
• I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

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