One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Alice JamesThe 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 JamesI think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.
Alice James