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Category: Edith Wharton

3 December 2020 Edith Wharton

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 windings of destiny.

3 December 2020 Edith Wharton

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

3 December 2020 Edith Wharton

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.

3 December 2020 Edith Wharton

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

3 December 2020 Edith Wharton

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

3 December 2020 Edith Wharton

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

3 December 2020 Edith Wharton

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

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