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Blessed are the pure in heart for they have so many more things to talk about.

Edith Wharton

Blessed, Heart, Pure

Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.3128, Delphi Classics

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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.

Edith Wharton

Hands, Sick, Care

Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1241, Delphi Classics

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...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

Edith Wharton

Clever, Liars, Giving

Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.239, Booklassic

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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

Real, Arbitrary, Done

Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.39, Booklassic

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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Edith Wharton

Substance, Literature, Lilies

Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.33, VM eBooks

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I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

Edith Wharton

Lovers, Incorrigible, Adventurer

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Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

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... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

Edith Wharton

Routine, Caprice

Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.4, Edith Wharton

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The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.

Edith Wharton

Spring, Winter, Shining

Edith Wharton (2016). “Ethan Frome”, p.82, First Avenue Editions

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There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

Edith Wharton

Tragedy, Mask, Comic

Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.

Edith Wharton

Smile, Light, Vivid

Edith Wharton (2015). “Edith Wharton: Collected Stories Vol. 1 1891-1910”, p.377, Library of America

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A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Edith Wharton

Dramatic, Significance, Acquire

Edith Wharton, Janet Beer (2002). “The House of Mirth”, p.15, Wordsworth Editions

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Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

Edith Wharton

Achievement, Way, Ruins

Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4461, Delphi Classics

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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

Opportunity, Thinking, Remembers Everything

Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.70, VM eBooks

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

Edith Wharton

Mean, Ideas, Illusion

Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.64, VM eBooks

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Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Edith Wharton

Solitude, Littles, Noise

Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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

Edith Wharton

Laughing, Littles, Wave

Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1980, Delphi Classics

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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.

Edith Wharton

Loneliness, Sky, Light

Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.495, Delphi Classics

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there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

Edith Wharton

Writing, Letters, Way

Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2334, Delphi Classics

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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

Soul, Vision, Trying

Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2268, Delphi Classics

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Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

Edith Wharton

May

Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2005, Delphi Classics

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I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.

Edith Wharton

New York, Intelligent, Boston

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It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

Edith Wharton

Darkness, Sunrise, Harder

Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.145, VM eBooks

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The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.

Edith Wharton

Reading, Book, Pages

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My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

Edith Wharton

Love, Dog, Animal

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Born: January 24, 1862
Died: August 11, 1937
Occupation: Novelist
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