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Own Quotes by Edith Wharton
- For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding…
- 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 think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.
- She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
- We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the…
- Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them…
- 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…
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