Edith Wharton Quotes

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  There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

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  One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

  Edith Wharton

  Life And Death, Curiosity, Intellectual

  A Backward Glance "A First Word" (1934)

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• Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

  Edith Wharton

  Half, Mirth, Life Is

  Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Art, Care

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.3642, Delphi Classics

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• I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.

  Edith Wharton

  Believe, Self, House

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• Some things are best mended by a break.

  Edith Wharton

  Quitting, Break

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1543, Delphi Classics

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

  Edith Wharton

  Eye, Miracle, Ears

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.285, Edith Wharton

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• Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

  Edith Wharton

  Men, Emotion, Reason

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4566, Delphi Classics

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

  Edith Wharton

  Wisdom, Firm, Knows

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• If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Happy, Women

  "Ethan Frome".

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  The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

  Edith Wharton

  Real, Loneliness, People

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

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

  Edith Wharton

  Needs, Upkeep, Crumbling

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• Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

  Edith Wharton

  Carpe Diem, Enjoy Life, Action

  Edith Wharton (2002). “Artemis to Actaeon and More: Selected Verse”, p.16, Wildside Press LLC

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• But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes.

  Edith Wharton

  Doors, Drawing, House

  Edith Wharton (2016). “Early Short Stories: American Literature”, p.143, VM eBooks

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• Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

  Edith Wharton

  Broken, Together, Perpetual

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Reef: American Literature”, p.206, VM eBooks

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• There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Mirrors, Light

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

  Edith Wharton

  Men, Trouble

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.3676, Delphi Classics

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• Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

  Edith Wharton

  Silence, Literature, May

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1366, Delphi Classics

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• Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

  Edith Wharton

  Life, Giving, Bed

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• There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

  Edith Wharton

  Friendship, Best Friend, Self

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.7592, Delphi Classics

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• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

  Edith Wharton

  Vision, Literature, Originality

  Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Each time you happen to me all over again.

  Edith Wharton

  Love, Romantic, Happens

  Edith Wharton (2015). “Age of Innocence”, p.81, Oxford University Press

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• One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Travel, People

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• The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Luckily the inconsequent life is not the only alternative; for caprice is as ruinous as routine. 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.

  Edith Wharton

  Writing, Age, Routine

  "A Backward Glance".

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• There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Running, Mind

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4977, Delphi Classics

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