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Made Quotes by Edith Wharton
- If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London;…
- I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
- Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
- He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the…
- What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.
- And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead…
- One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made…
- She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.
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