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Quotation from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
“Life had been enchanting, it was now flat sober, more than sober, dead”
The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures VI and VII: The Sick Soul
James's paraphrase of Tolstoy's 'arrest' around the age of fifty, when life lost its meaning.
Citation: "Life had been enchanting, it was now flat sober, more than sober, dead" — William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures VI and VII: The Sick Soul. (id the-varieties-of-religious-experience-q5)
Portrait: William James by Alice M. Boughton, c. 1907, platinum print, from the National Portrait Gallery - NPG-NPG 87 37James-000001 (cropped), Alice Boughton, Public domain.
