Wharton

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    ... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it only through the prison bars of illness and suffering! Plus je vois, the more I am thrilled by the spectacle.
    —Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

    I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!!... What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, & eating bananas for breakfast.
    —Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

    After all, one knows one’s weak points so well, that it’s rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them & invent others.
    —Edith Wharton (1862–1937)