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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»
«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»
«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.»
«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 to lean upon.»
«It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!»
Author: Alice James
«I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.»
Author: Alice James
«Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.»
Author: Alice James
«You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.»
Author: Alice James
«One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.»
Author: Alice James
«I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am»
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