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

Edith Wharton

“Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.”

Edith Wharton

“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 book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.”

Edith Wharton

Source: A Backward Glance

“His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“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

Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (1934): "Warning"
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“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 The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.”

Edith Wharton

“… 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.”

Edith Wharton Summer

Source: Summer

“To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.”

Edith Wharton

“Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth