Edith Wharton Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
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“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
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“One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.”
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“Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.”
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“I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.”
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“As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.”
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“A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.”
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“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
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“They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods”
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“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
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“One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.”
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“There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.”
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“A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.”
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“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.”
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“But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes.”
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“It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.”
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“No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.”
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“Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.”
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“A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.”
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“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?”
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“Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone”
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“After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.”
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“Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.”
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“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”
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“Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
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“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.”
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