Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Edith Wharton

Stichwörter: solitude quote the-house-of-mirth

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Yes - it was happiness she still wanted, and the glimpse she had caught of it made everything else of no account. One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities , and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation.
"The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

Stichwörter: happiness the-house-of-mirth

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I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person.

Edith Wharton

Stichwörter: the-house-of-mirth

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