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From Quotes by Edith Wharton
- It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost…
- The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day…
- Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the…
- I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
- ...In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers...
- 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…
- It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all…
- The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her…
- 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
- ...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than…
- Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She…
- She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on…
- 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…
- What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from…
- It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. But how…
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