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“We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.”

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

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Edith Wharton buch The House of Mirth

Quelle: The House of Mirth

“Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.”

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Edith Wharton buch The House of Mirth

Quelle: The House of Mirth

“An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Quelle: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 1

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

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Edith Wharton buch The House of Mirth

Quelle: The House of Mirth

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
I loved light ever, light in eye and brain —
No tapers mirrored in long palace floors,
Nor dedicated depths of silent aisles,
But just the common dusty wind-blown day
That roofs earth's millions.”

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Edith Wharton

"Vesalius in Zante (1564)" http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/whartpoe2.htm#Vesalius%20in%20Zante.%20(1564), in North American Review (November 1902), p. 625 <br class="br">Quelle: Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

“Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”

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Edith Wharton

Journal entry (March 1926)

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

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Edith Wharton

“Each time you happen to me all over again.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Quelle: The Age of Innocence

“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.”

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Edith Wharton

Quelle: Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction

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

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Edith Wharton

"Vesalius in Zante (1564)", in North American Review (November 1902), p. 631
Variante: There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.

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

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Quelle: The Age of Innocence

“Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Quelle: The Age of Innocence

“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Quelle: The Age of Innocence