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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.”
― Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon

“Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“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.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.”
― Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon