Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate January 24, 1862

Zodiac Aquarius

Location New York City, New York

Country United States

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Edith Wharton Quotes

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

Tags: humor

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Tags: drama

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

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She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted.'

Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: 'She never asked me.

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he plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate

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Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.

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..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

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An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Sweedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Tags: language music paradox understanding

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

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Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

Tags: affection love sensuality

In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

Tags: etiquette

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