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“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
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“She made no answer, and he went on: “What’s the use? You gave me my first glimpse of a real life, and at the same moment you asked me to go on with a sham one. It’s beyond human enduring—that’s all.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity”
― The House of Mirth
― The House of Mirth
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
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“Will-power, he saw, was not a thing one could suddenly decree oneself to possess. It must be built up imperceptibly and laboriously out of a succession of small efforts to meet definite objects, out of the facing of daily difficulties instead of cleverly eluding them, or shifting their burden on others.”
― The Glimpses of the Moon
― The Glimpses of the Moon
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