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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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New York City
New York
Edith Newbold Jones
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
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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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He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.
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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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It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
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Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
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She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.
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...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.
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... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.
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Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.
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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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Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
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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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Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.
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And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.
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The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.
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Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.
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