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Each time you happen to me all over again.
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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Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
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... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.
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Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.
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The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.
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For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer noon, when the heat seems to have silenced the very birds and insects, and, lying sunk in the tasselled meadow grasses, one looks up through a level roofing of maple-leaves at the vast, shadowless, and unsuggestive blue.
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The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.
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And all the while, I suppose, he thought, real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.
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Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.
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I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.
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I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay at home and mind the baby. Still less am I interested in scholarships for female Yids.
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It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
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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.
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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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Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
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In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.
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One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.
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I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them.
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