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My last page is always latent ...

My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

I couldn't have spoken like th...

I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting it to come true.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

A classic is classic not becau...

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

It's you who are telling me; o...

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Everything may be labelled- bu...

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

I swear I only want to hear ab...

I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

But after a moment a sense of ...

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 to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Yes, you have been away a very...

Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

We live in our own souls as in...

We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.

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And he felt himself oppressed ...

And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

The real alchemy consists in b...

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

One of the surprises of her un...

One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

She would not have put herself...

She would not have put herself out so much to say so little.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Her failure was a useful preli...

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Do you remember what you said ...

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; and it helped me. It has always helped me.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

I wonder, among all the tangle...

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Art is on the side of the oppr...

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

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I despair of the Republic! Suc...

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

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In any really good subject, on...

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

To visit Morocco is still like...

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

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