Quotes by Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

… how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it only through theprison bars of illness and suffering! Plus je vois, the more I am thrilled by the spectacle.

Joy

Pain

Suffering

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… naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

Consonants

Taste

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…every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

Lines

Literature

People

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…I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.

Monotony

Mother

Sin

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…It was one of the great livery-stableman’s most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

Amusement

Intuition

Want

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…though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.

Fate

Feelings

Spontaneity

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[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.

Ideas

Needs

World

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[I]t’s safer to be fond of dangerous people.

Dangerous

People

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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Divorce

Literature

New York

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Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit

People

War

Years

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