"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."
-Edith Wharton
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"Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.“
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"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
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"Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue."
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"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
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"There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny."
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"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it."
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
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"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
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