Artificiality Quote by Edith Wharton

She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.

— Anonymous

“This was her original state; and then, as I was saying, and as the lovers of knowledge are well aware, philosophy, seeing how terrible…

— Plato

“She had no existence, in herself. From earliest childhood she had believed this. Rather she was a reflecting surface, reflecting others' perception of her,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“But this first clumsy attempt showed her that the imagination itself was a source of secrets: once she had begun a story, no one…

— Ian McEwan

“But when, from the midst of the printed page, there suddenly sprang out at her these words: 'Here I stand; I can no other,'…

— Anna Kavan

“There were moments when she longed blindly for anything different, anything strange, remote and untried; but the utmost reach of her imagination did not…

— Edith Wharton

“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need…

— Virginia Woolf

“She wanted her own time her own life her own set of eyes.”

— Jasmine Sandozz

“Yet there must be something repulsive about her somewhere, something more repelling than just a pair of eyes that couldn't see, for she'd been…

— Beverly Butler

It seemed as if I could see things in her that others couldn't see, qualities which not even she was aware of. It was…

— Guillaume Musso

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”

— Kate Chopin

“Her mind was still tiptoeing along the boundary of consciousness, in that state of semi-waking that spins threads between dream and real, and for…

— Laini Taylor