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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

Edith Wharton

For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer noon, when the heat seems to have silenced the very birds and insects, and, lying sunk in the tasselled meadow grasses, one looks up through a level roofing of maple-leaves at the vast, shadowless, and unsuggestive blue.

Edith Wharton

When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.

Edith Wharton

Everybody who does anything at all does too much.

Edith Wharton

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

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

Edith Wharton

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Edith Wharton

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

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

Edith Wharton

One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written.

Edith Wharton

She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.

Edith Wharton

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

Edith Wharton

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

Edith Wharton

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them." Mark Twain "...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

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

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

Edith Wharton

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone

Edith Wharton

He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

Edith Wharton

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

Edith Wharton

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Edith Wharton

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

Edith Wharton

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

To know when to be generous and when firmโ€”that is wisdom.

Edith Wharton

The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing.

Edith Wharton

It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank; but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family.

Edith Wharton

I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting it to come true.

Edith Wharton

The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.

Edith Wharton

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

Edith Wharton

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Edith Wharton

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

Edith Wharton

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Edith Wharton

... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

Edith Wharton

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

Edith Wharton

The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosohpically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces of a small face survived as if awaiting excavation.

Edith Wharton

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

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

Edith Wharton

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.

Edith Wharton

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

Edith Wharton

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.

Edith Wharton

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Edith Wharton

Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes.

Edith Wharton

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Edith Wharton
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