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Alice James [1848-1892] American

Rank: 107
Writer, Diarist

Alice James was an American diarist, sister of novelist Henry James and philosopher William James. Her relationship with William was unusually close, and she seems to have been badly affected by his marriage.

Failure, Medical, Respect

Quote	Tags	Rank
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.		101
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.		102
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.	Respect	103
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.		104
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.	Medical	105
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.		106
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.	Failure	107
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.		108
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.		109
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?		110
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.		111

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