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Love Quotes by Edith Wharton
- Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.
- Some things are best mended by a break.
- True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
- My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
- The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
- ...In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers...
- You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.
- There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had…
- She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
- Staunch and faithful lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love that one ever gives them.
- It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all…
- Each time you happen to me all over again.
- Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.
- She would not have put herself out so much to say so little.
- Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.
- Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment;…
- He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to…
- She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.
- Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.
- Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?
- How I hate everything!
- Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.
- And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ...
- We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?
- I can't love you unless I give you up.
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- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide