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Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation (Edith Wharton Quotes)
There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it (Edith Wharton Quotes)
My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write (Edith Wharton Quotes)
His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen (Edith Wharton Quotes)
It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Perhaps, after all, Susy reflected, it was the world she was meant for, since the other, the brief Paradise of her dreams, had already shut its golden doors upon her (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing (Edith Wharton Quotes)
They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything (Edith Wharton Quotes)
He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear (Edith Wharton Quotes)
.. but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune (Edith Wharton Quotes)
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath (Edith Wharton Quotes)
She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate (Edith Wharton Quotes)
What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast (Edith Wharton Quotes)
In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs (Edith Wharton Quotes)
It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Staunch and faithful lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love that one ever gives them (Edith Wharton Quotes)
The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories (Edith Wharton Quotes)
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter (Edith Wharton Quotes)
I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else (Edith Wharton Quotes)
They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets (Edith Wharton Quotes)
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime (Edith Wharton Quotes)
... I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Brains and culture seem non - existent from one end of the social scale to the other, and half the morons yell for filth, and the other half continue to put pants on the piano legs (Edith Wharton Quotes)
Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board (Edith Wharton Quotes)
The bounds of a personality are not reproducible by a sharp black line, but... each of us flows imperceptibly into adjacent people and things (Edith Wharton Quotes)
I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes (Edith Wharton Quotes)
To the French, [le plaisir] is a part of the general fearless and joyful contact with life (Edith Wharton Quotes)
He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty (Edith Wharton Quotes)