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Edith Wharton — Portrait after a picture by E. F. Cooper, Newport, Rhode Island (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Edith Wharton

American writer and designer

1862–1937

16 quotes, most often on Love, Freedom and Life & Death.

He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.
The House of Mirth (1905), Book Two, Chapter 14In context
- Life & Death
- Love
I have tried hard⁠—but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.
The House of Mirth (1905), Book Two, Chapter 12In context
- Failure
- Life & Death

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