“She could never rid herself of the sense that unhappiness was a state of disease – of suffering as opposed to doing. To "do" – it hardly mattered what – would therefore be an escape, perhaps in some degree a remedy.”

— Henry James, book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XLI

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American novelist, short story author, and literary critic 1843–1916

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