“Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears.'
Well, she has opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say she blinds people. What she does is the contrary-she fastens their eyelids open, so they're never again in the blessed darkness.”

— Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

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American novelist, short story writer, designer 1862–1937

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