"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
-Edith Wharton
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"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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"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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"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
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