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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
Novelist
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New York City
New York
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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People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.
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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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I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.
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I can't love you unless I give you up.
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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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Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.
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I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
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She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
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Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.
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Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.
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It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now
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She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.
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Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.
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She was very near hating him now yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.
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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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Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
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The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
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He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.
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Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.
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