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Edith Wharton Quotes

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She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision  (Edith Wharton Quotes) She had always thought of love as something confused and furtive, and he made it as bright and open as the summer air  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Beauty was a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings  (Edith Wharton Quotes) So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air  (Edith Wharton Quotes) He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her  (Edith Wharton Quotes) He looked at her hopelessly. Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions  (Edith Wharton Quotes) You can't imagine the excuses a woman will invent for a man's not telling her that he loves her - pitiable arguments that she would see through at a glance if any other woman used them!  (Edith Wharton Quotes) ... both had let him feel that interesting failures may be worth more in the end than dull successes  (Edith Wharton Quotes) The things that had filled his days seemed now like a nursery parody of life, or like the wrangles of medieval schoolmen over metaphysical terms that nobody had ever understood  (Edith Wharton Quotes) There was such love as she had dreamed, and she meant to go on believing in it and cherishing the thought that she was worthy of it  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Archer looked down with wonder at the familiar spectacle. It surprised him that life should be going on in the old way when his own reactions to it had so completely changed  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Some one said the other day that there was a divorce and a case of appendicitis in every family one knows  (Edith Wharton Quotes) It's rather clever of her to have made a specialty of devoting herself to dull people - the field is such a large one, and she has it practically to herself  (Edith Wharton Quotes) It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down  (Edith Wharton Quotes) I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it’s because there’s nothing to worry them  (Edith Wharton Quotes) In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them  (Edith Wharton Quotes) I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself  (Edith Wharton Quotes) If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration  (Edith Wharton Quotes) I’d almost say it’s the worries that make married folks sacred to each other  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events  (Edith Wharton Quotes) When a man says he doesn’t understand a woman it’s because he won’t take the trouble  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Mothers and daughters are part of each other’s consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children  (Edith Wharton Quotes) Blessed are the pure in heart for they have so many more things to talk about  (Edith Wharton Quotes) It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all  (Edith Wharton Quotes) I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end  (Edith Wharton Quotes)
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