"The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!"

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Source : Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2005, Delphi Classics

Edith Wharton

#Real Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #People Quotes

“Theodore Roosevelt is of singular interest, because he was, in many evident ways, a self-created figure. He transformed his life into performance art. He intended his life to be an example for others to learn from or even emulate.”
“When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.”
“He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.”
“The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.”
“Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!”
“Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.”
“So, change lanes. Get your stride back. Don't stay on a road that can only lead you to further devastation”
“You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.”

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