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Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom.

~ Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick Edith Wharton Freedom Henry James

In the rosy glow it diffused her companions seemed full of amiable qualities. She liked their elegance; their lightness, their lack of emphasis: even the self-assurance which at times was so like obtuseness now seemed the natural sign of social ascendency. They were lords of the only world she cared for, and they were ready to admit her to their ranks and let her lord it with them. Already she felt within her a stealing allegiance to their standards, an acceptance of their limitations, a disbelief in the things they did not believe in, a contemptuous pity for the people who were not able to live as they lived.

~ Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton Dinner Party Edith Wharton Friends The House Of Mirth

The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of whichher beauty was a part.

~ Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton Beauty Edith Wharton Elegance Grace Lawrence Selden Lily Bart Love The House Of Mirth

...life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know.

~ Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton Edith Wharton Empathy Marion Mainwaring The Buccaneers

Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.

~ Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton Edith Wharton Gerty Farish Goodness Lily Bart Reputation The House Of Mirth

We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.

~ Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton Beauty Edith Wharton Fashion The House Of Mirth Women

Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.

~ Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton Edith Wharton Nature Summer Summer Nights The House Of Mirth
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