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Edith Wharton Quotes
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It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them (Edith Wharton Quotes)
I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met - it may be another hundred before we meet again (Edith Wharton Quotes)
We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours (Edith Wharton Quotes)
The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost (Edith Wharton Quotes)
One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well - you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me (Edith Wharton Quotes)
He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them (Edith Wharton Quotes)
When two people part who have loved each other it is as if what happens between them befell in a great emptiness - as if the tearing asunder of the flesh must turn at last into a disembodied anguish (Edith Wharton Quotes)
... and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in (Edith Wharton Quotes)
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness (Edith Wharton Quotes)
... It was one of the great livery - stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it (Edith Wharton Quotes)
To begin with, I hate these new - fangled intermediate meals. Why can't people eat enough at luncheon to last till dinner? (Edith Wharton Quotes)
All the girls feared their Father less than they did their Mother, because she sometimes remembered things and he did not. Lord Brightlingsea was swept through life on a steady amnesiac flow (Edith Wharton Quotes)
And for a long while they stood side by side without speaking, each seeing the other in every line of the landscape (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Obviously he had aspired too high, or been too impatient; but it was his nature to be aspiring and impatient, and if he was to succeed it must be on the lines of his own character (Edith Wharton Quotes)
These Americans, under their forthcoming manner, their surface - gush, as some might call it, have an odd reticence about what goes on underneath (Edith Wharton Quotes)
He saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Absent - that was what he was: so absent from everything most densely real and near to those about him that it sometimes startled him to find they still imagined he was there (Edith Wharton Quotes)
And once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Norton was supremely gifted as an awakener, and no thoughtful mind can recall without a thrill the notes of the first voice which has called it out of its morning dream (Edith Wharton Quotes)
His days were full and they were filled decently, he supposed it was all a man ought to ask. Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Among all these stupid pretty women she had such a sense of power, of knowing almost everything better than they did (Edith Wharton Quotes)
The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic (Edith Wharton Quotes)
A classic is a classic not because it conform to certain structural rules or fits certain definitions. It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Well - watching the contortions of the damned is supposed to be a favorite sport of the angels, but I believe even they don't think people happier in hell (Edith Wharton Quotes)
In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once (Edith Wharton Quotes)
I felt there was no one as kind as you; no one who gave me reasons that I understood for doing what at first seemed so hard and - unnecessary (Edith Wharton Quotes)
The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done (Edith Wharton Quotes)