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 WhartonTags: solitude quote the-house-of-mirth
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
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Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you?
Edith WhartonA man has the advantage of being delivered early from the home point of view, and before Selden left for college he had learned that there are as many different ways of going without money as of spending it.
Edith WhartonHalf the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.
Edith WhartonShe had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for it all.
Edith WhartonI want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.
Edith WhartonTo have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.
Edith WhartonWe shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?
Edith WhartonYou gave me my first glimpse of a real life, and at the same moment you asked me to go on with a sham one. It's beyond human enduring-that's all.
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