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Lived Quotes by Edith Wharton
- In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only…
- [B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.
- 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 have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
- He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast…
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