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