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“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.”
― Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
― Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
“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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“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”
― The Age of Innocence
― 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.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
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