For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a k…

Edith Wharton
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For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins. ✨ Edith Wharton (2013). Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated), p.2054, Delphi Classics
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Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.
Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins. ✨ Edith Wharton (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated), p.4461, Delphi Classics
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath. ✨ Edith Wharton (2016). The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton, p.134, VM eB … ▶
But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives form … ▶
It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them. ✨ Edith Wharton (2015). The Age of Innocence, p.61, Xist Publishing

For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins. ✨ Edith Wharton (2013). Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated), p.2054, Delphi Classics

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