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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton
Age: 75 †
Born: 1862
Born: January 24
Died: 1937
Died: August 11
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Edith Newbold Jones
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
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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.
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Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.
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She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
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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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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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In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.
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I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
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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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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.
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Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.
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What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
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In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats but they were not sown more than once.
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For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.
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I can't love you unless I give you up.
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There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.
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