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Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart
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
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Edith Newbold Jones
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
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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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Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.
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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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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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One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.
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Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
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Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.
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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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It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
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In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.
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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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... caprice is as ruinous as routine.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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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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Each time you happen to me all over again.
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People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.
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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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