Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience…
– Edith Wharton
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- The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! – Edith Wharton
- One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are. – Edith Wharton
- Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one’s self? – Edith Wharton
- The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches – Edith Wharton
- What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I’m convinced it all turns on that. – Edith Wharton
- The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears. – Edith Wharton
- ..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune. – Edith Wharton
- Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life. – Edith Wharton
- The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic – Edith Wharton
- A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. – Edith Wharton
- The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future. – Edith Wharton
- They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the strange mysterious depths of her tranquillity. – Edith Wharton
- I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they’re about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton. – Edith Wharton
- The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done. – Edith Wharton
- Don’t you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can? – Edith Wharton
- Don’t they always go from bad to worse? There’s no turning back–yourold self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart – Edith Wharton
- Ah, don’t let us undo what you’ve done!’ she cried. ‘I can’t go back now to that other way of thinking. I can’t love you unless I give you up. – Edith Wharton
- I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you’re sick and when you’re lonesome. – Edith Wharton
- What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest. – Edith Wharton
- In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. -“ Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay – John Taliaferro
- …how much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast? – Edith Wharton
- It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country. – Edith Wharton
- …life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know. – Edith Wharton
- Oh, Gerty, I wasn’t meant to be good. – Edith Wharton
- It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes. – Edith Wharton
- Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence’s sake? – Claire North
- If you see those pretty thingsthat nature likes to showRemember all those seals that singAnd leave them there to grow. – Stephen Cosgrove
- Love doesn’t hurt, love doesn’t cut, and in dark times love doesn’t cease.Love heals, love seals, it drains out the world and leaves you with peace. – Palle Oswald
- The power to define the other seals one’s definition of oneself. – James Baldwin
- Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. – John Steinbeck
- May your heart be mine, may my heart be yours. May your sorrows be mine, may my joys be yours. – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- They say when you take revenge against another you lose your innocence. – EK Blair
- their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals. – Mark Helprin
- Thoughts are the imagination of the conscious mind and dreams are the imagination of the subconscious mind. – Debasish Mridha
- He who wars against the arts, wars not against nations, but against all mankind. – Arthur Urbane Dilley
- Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage. – George RR Martin
- Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour. – Hilary Mantel
- The mind knows only what lies near the heart. – Edith Hamilton
- The exact symptom of sad people is their innocence and honesty but these kind of people always at the top of success… – Agha Kousar