He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her.
Edith WhartonIt frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
Edith WhartonTag: eyes
I can't love you unless I give you up.
Edith WhartonTag: love-hurts
She was the subject creature, and versed in the arts of the enslaved.
Edith WhartonA smiling, bantering, humouring, watchful and incessant lie. A lie by day, a lie by night, a lie in every touch and every look; a lie in every caress and every quarrel; a lie in every word and in every silence.
Edith WhartonDoes no one want to know the truth here, Mr Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
Edith WhartonTag: hypocrisy new-york social-criticism pulitzer-prize ellen-olenska
I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person.
Edith WhartonTag: the-house-of-mirth
He had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings. Little by little it became the scene of his real life, of his only rational activities; thither he brought the books he read, the ideas and feelings which nourished him, his judgments and his visions. Outside it, in the scene of his actual life, he moved with a growing sense of unreality and insufficiency, blundering against familiar prejudices and traditional points of view as an absent-minded man goes on bumping into the furniture of his own room.
Edith WhartonWhy do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
Edith WhartonTag: illusions cynicism idealism truths
The things that had filled his days seemed now like a nursery parody of life, or like the wrangles of medieval schoolmen over metaphysical terms that nobody had ever understood.
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