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“Mais, en attendant, c'était déjà merveilleux de s'asseoir dans le coin d'une salle silencieuse, avec des volumes empilés en face de lui, les mains plongées dans les cheveux, l'âme immergée dans un monde nouveau”

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

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

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

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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.”

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Edith Wharton livre 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.”

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“… 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.”

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Edith Wharton Summer

Source: Summer

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

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

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Edith Wharton livre The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“… I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.”

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“I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.”

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Edith Wharton livre The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 8

“I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.”

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Edith Wharton livre Ethan Frome

Source: Ethan Frome

“Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be”

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Edith Wharton livre The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.”

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Edith Wharton livre The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

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

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Edith Wharton livre The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.”

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Edith Wharton

“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.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“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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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“… In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers…”

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“Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.”

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Edith Wharton livre The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

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

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Edith Wharton livre Ethan Frome

Source: Ethan Frome

“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.”

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Edith Wharton livre The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

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