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Wells Quotes by Edith Wharton
- Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
- The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.
- After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
- Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears.' Well, she has opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say she blinds people. What she does…
- 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;…
- In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.
- She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.
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