Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--yourold self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart
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Edith Wharton
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Edith Wharton currently has 112 indexed quotes and 19 linked works on QuoteMust. This page is the canonical destination for that author archive.
Works
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A Backward Glance
Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
French Ways and Their Meaning
Old New York: Four Novellas
Souls Belated
Summer
The Age of Innocence
The Buccaneers
The Custom of the Country
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth
The Mother's Recompense
The Quicksand
The Touchstone
The Verdict
The Writing of Fiction
Xingu and other Stories
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Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?
The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.
Yes - it was happiness she still wanted, and the glimpse she had caught of it made everything else of no account. One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities , and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation. "The House of Mirth