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The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.”
“She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.”
“Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”
“Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?”
“She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.”
“As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”
“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?”
“It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be”
“I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.”
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