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There is one friend in the lif...

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

What Lily craved was the darkn...

What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

She was so evidently the victi...

She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

She had no tolerance for scene...

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

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

What a shame it is for a natio...

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

In reality they all lived in a...

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.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

We can't behave like people in...

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

[B]ut he had lived in a world ...

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

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Genius is of small use to a wo...

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

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

It was easy enough to despise ...

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Staunch and faithful lovers th...

Staunch and faithful lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love that one ever gives them.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

It is almost as stupid to let ...

It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

It was amusement enough to be ...

It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank; but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Charity, till then, had been c...

Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Beauty (was)a gift which, in t...

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

The value of books is proporti...

The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

The turnings of life seldon sh...

The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Why do we call all our generou...

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

Only the fact that we are unaw...

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

The short story, free from the...

The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.

Edith Wharton 287 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....