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Edith Wharton Quotes

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American Author, Writer January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937

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Edith Wharton quote: "Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through..."
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. Edith Wharton
You 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. Edith Wharton
The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost. Edith Wharton
Lily had no real intimacy with nature but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who..."
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! Edith Wharton
Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on a languid tide of curiosity... Somewhere behind them, in the background of their lives there was doubtless a real past, yet they had no more real existence than the poet's shades in limbo. Edith Wharton
The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights. Edith Wharton
In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs. Edith Wharton
Real reading is reflex action; the born reader reads as unconsciously as he breathes; and, to carry the analogy a degree farther, reading is no more a virtue than breathing. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were..."
And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ... Edith Wharton

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