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The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
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Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

  • sucreandzeushas quoted7 years ago
    how can they see you in these holes where we're stuck?" That was the burden
  • Reyna Hameerahas quoted2 years ago
    "I have tried hard—but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.
  • Reyna Hameerahas quoted2 years ago
    "Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well—you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me. But the moment is gone—it was I who let it go. And one must go on living. Goodbye."
  • Matt & Charlhas quoted3 years ago
    That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she ought to be reaping the harvest she over-sleeps herself or goes off on a picnic."
  • Matt & Charlhas quoted3 years ago
    is surprising how little narrow walls and a low ceiling matter, when the roof of the soul has suddenly been raised.
  • Matt & Charlhas quoted3 years ago
    There were in her at the moment two beings, one drawing deep breaths of freedom and exhilaration, the other gasping for air in a little black prison-house of fears
  • Regina Del ríohas quoted4 years ago
    even her weeping
    was an art
  • Regina Del ríohas quoted4 years ago
    “Why do we call all our
    generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? Isn’t it a
    sufficient condemnation of society to find one’s self accepting
    such phraseology?
  • Regina Del ríohas quoted4 years ago
    “My idea of success,” he said, “is personal freedom.”
  • montecassinolhas quoted7 years ago
    she must follow up her success,
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