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Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes.
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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Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
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Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.
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Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.
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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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We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.
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... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it only through theprison bars of illness and suffering! Plus je vois, the more I am thrilled by the spectacle.
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They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods
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I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.
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Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
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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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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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In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.
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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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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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Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.
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Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.
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