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Edith Wharton Inspirational Quotes (144)

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She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.
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There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.
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She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.
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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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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
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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.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
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I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.
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The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.
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I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.
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Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy I should want some one who made it interesting.
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There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
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[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.
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An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.
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Life is always either a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.
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Life is made up of compromises.
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It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.
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In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.
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Each time you happen to me all over again.
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Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.
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Damn words they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.
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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.
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