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Edith Wharton Quotes

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Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Life’s just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits  (Edith Wharton Quotes) ... there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?  (Edith Wharton Quotes) The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it  (Edith Wharton Quotes) You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair  (Edith Wharton Quotes) We shall hurt others less. Isn’t it, after all, what you always wanted?  (Edith Wharton Quotes) It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes  (Edith Wharton Quotes) It is surprising how little narrow walls and a low ceiling matter, when the roof of the soul has suddenly been raised  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue  (Edith Wharton Quotes) There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny  (Edith Wharton Quotes) It was part of her discernment to be aware that life is the only real counselor, that wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissues  (Edith Wharton Quotes) No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity  (Edith Wharton Quotes) After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others that (one is fairly sure) don't exist - or exist in a less measure  (Edith Wharton Quotes) I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie  (Edith Wharton Quotes) In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once  (Edith Wharton Quotes) I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive  (Edith Wharton Quotes) He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime  (Edith Wharton Quotes) I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting  (Edith Wharton Quotes) I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story  (Edith Wharton Quotes) I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death  (Edith Wharton Quotes) When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say  (Edith Wharton Quotes) There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul  (Edith Wharton Quotes) They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods  (Edith Wharton Quotes) He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface  (Edith Wharton Quotes)
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