Henry James said it this way in a letter to a friend:
(a friend who had complained of his own idleness):
"From the bottom of my heart I pity you for being without some practicable door for getting out of yourself. We all need one.... It takes at the best, I think, a great deal of courage and patience to live -- but one must do everything to invent, to force open, that door of exit from mere immersion in one's own states."
"From the bottom of my heart I pity you for being without some practicable door for getting out of yourself. We all need one.... It takes at the best, I think, a great deal of courage and patience to live -- but one must do everything to invent, to force open, that door of exit from mere immersion in one's own states."