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Moments Quotes by Edith Wharton
- The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.
- There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long…
- 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…
- But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained…
- 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;…
- The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive…
- He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless…
- 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…
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