What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.
Edith WhartonStichwörter: human-nature
Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?
Edith WhartonBut at sunset the clouds gathered again, bringing an earlier night, and the snow began to fall straight and steadily from a sky without wind, in a soft universal diffusion more confusing than the gusts and eddies of the morning. It seemed to be a part of the thickening darkness, to be the winter night itself descending on us layer by layer.
Edith WhartonStichwörter: winter
She had always thought of love as something confused and furtive, and he made it as bright and open as the summer air.
Edith WhartonStichwörter: love
Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to
Edith WhartonStichwörter: learning conservatism
Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.
Edith WhartonStichwörter: beauty
Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom.
Edith WhartonStichwörter: wisdom folly consequenses
She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she thought that Lily disliked her. It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
Edith WhartonStichwörter: indifference jealousy vanity popularity
So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.
Edith WhartonStichwörter: change anxiety sanctification dissonance
Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?
Edith WhartonStichwörter: solitude reflection
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