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Category: Alice James

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Experience, Doctor, Human

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.

Life, Success, Luck

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

Though I have no productive worth I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

self, knowledge

Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.

It is so comical to hear oneself called old even at ninety I suppose!

The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind me…since the hideous summer of ’78, when I went down to the deep sea, its dark waters closed over me and I knew neither hope nor peace.

alice-james, depression, diary

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…

books, inner-life

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind me…since the hideous summer of ’78, when I went down to the deep sea, its dark waters closed over me and I knew neither hope nor peace.

alice-james, depression, diary

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.