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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
Edith Wharton
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Edith Wharton
Age: 75 †
Born: 1862
Born: January 24
Died: 1937
Died: August 11
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Edith Newbold Jones
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
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It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family.
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The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
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Life is made up of compromises.
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She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.
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Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
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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.
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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
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The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.
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Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes.
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... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.
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What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.
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She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.
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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 Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.
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It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.
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I can't love you unless I give you up.
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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!
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