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The other producer of old age ...

The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Luckily the inconsequent life is not the only alternative; for caprice is as ruinous as routine. Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

She wondered if, when human so...

She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Set wide the window. Let me dr...

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

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The taste of the usual was lik...

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

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She felt a stealing sense of f...

She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her.

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...every literature, in its ma...

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

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

She seemed to melt against him...

She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.

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For hours she had lain in a ki...

For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer noon, when the heat seems to have silenced the very birds and insects, and, lying sunk in the tasselled meadow grasses, one looks up through a level roofing of maple-leaves at the vast, shadowless, and unsuggestive blue.

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And all the while, I suppose,...

And all the while, I suppose,' he thought, 'real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ...

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He had married (as most young ...

He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.

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The difference is that these y...

The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonderЂ'the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

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No insect hangs its nest on th...

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

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In the rotation of crops there...

In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.

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I was never allowed to read th...

I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

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To be able to look life in the...

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

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I think I like 'em better like...

I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.

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Life is the saddest thing ther...

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

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They seemed to come suddenly u...

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

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She threw back her head with a...

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

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Some things are best mended by...

Some things are best mended by a break.

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