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Mr. Popple, in fact, held that the personality of the artist should at all times be dissembled behind that of the man. It was his opinion that the essence of good-breeding lay in tossing off a picture as easily as you lit a cigarette.
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Passion," the artist implied, would have been the dominant note of his life, had it not been held in check by a sentiment of exalted chivalry, and by the sense that a nature of such emotional intensity as his must always be "ridden on the curb."
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She had found out that she had given herself to the exclusive and the dowdy when the future belonged to the showy and the promiscuous; that she was in the case of those who have cast in their lot with a fallen cause,
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Because it's against the custom of the country. And whose fault is that? The man's again--I don't mean Ralph I mean the genus he belongs to: homo sapiens, Americanus. Why haven't we taught our women to take an interest in our work? Simply because we don't take enough interest in THEM.
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Isn't that the key to our easy divorces? If we cared for women in the old barbarous possessive way do you suppose we'd give them up as readily as we do? The real paradox is the fact that the men who make, materially, the biggest sacrifices for their women, should do least for them ideally and romantically. And what's the result--how do the women avenge themselves? All my sympathy's with them, poor deluded dears, when I see their fallacious ..
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She would not take more risks than she could help, and it was admiration, not love, that she wanted.
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In the joy of her gratified desires she wanted to make everybody about her happy. If only everyone would do as she wished she would never be unreasonable. She much preferred to see smiling faces about her, and her dread of the reproachful and dissatisfied countenance gave the measure of what she would do to avoid it.
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But is it necessary," he urged, "to confound Christ with His ministers, the law with its exponents? May not men preserve their hope of heaven and yet lead more endurable lives on earth?" "Ah, my child, beware, for this is the heresy of private judgment, which has already drawn down thousands into the pit. It is one of the most insidious errors in which the spirit of evil has ever masqueraded; for it is based on the fallacy that we, blind cr..
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plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.
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He had grown up among people to whom such emotions were unknown. The old Marquess's passion for his fields and woods was the love of the agriculturist and the hunter, not that of the naturalist or the poet; and the aristocracy of the cities regarded the country merely as so much soil from which to draw their maintenance. The gentlefolk never absented themselves from town but for a few weeks of autumn, when they went to their villas for the ..
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But in the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time; and Glennard gradually learned that he stood for the venture on which Mrs. Aubyn had irretrievably staked her all.
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Carcel lamp,
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Edith Wharton |
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To kheirotero otan kaneis to kathekon sou einai oti ginesai prophanos akatallelos gia otidepote allo. Toulakhiston aute etan e apopse pou eikhan uiothetesei oi anthropoi tes genias tou. O saphes diakhorismos anamesa sto kalo kai to kako, to entimo kai to anentimo, to axioprepes kai to anaxioprepes eikhe aphesei polu ligo khoro gia to aproblepto. Uparkhoun stigmes pou e phantasia enos anthropou, eno upotassetai toso eukola se o,ti zei, ortho..
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life
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society
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the only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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Edith Wharton |
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to be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
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Edith Wharton |
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v ch'ei manere bylo iz'iasniat'sia otkrovenno, kogda ne bylo prichin, zhiteiskikh ili denezhnykh, o chem to umalchivat'. (O Siuzi Branch)
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Edith Wharton |
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udivila ego protivorechivym sochetaniem v nei sovremennogo chuvstva prakticheskoi tselesoobraznosti i staromodnogo poniatiia chestnosti... (Nik Lensing - o Siuzi Branch)
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Edith Wharton |
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Her entrances were always triumphs; but they had no sequel. As soon as people began to talk they ceased to see her.
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Edith Wharton |
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Drustvo je nebesko telo koje se okrece i treba ga procenjivati na osnovu mesta koje zauzima na nebu svakog pojedinca; a trenutno je svoju svetlost usmeravalo ka Lili.
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Edith Wharton |
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Ali znate, nas dve smo toliko razlicite: ona voli da bude dobra, a ja volim da budem srecna.
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Edith Wharton |
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Perhaps, if I hadn't been, once before--I mean, if I'd always been a prudent deliberate Ralston, it would have been kinder to Tina in the end." Dr. Lanskell sank his gouty bulk into the chair behind his desk, and beamed at her through ironic spectacles. "I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton."
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I believe it IS a vice, almost, to read such a book as the 'Letters,'" said Mrs. Touchett. "It's the woman's soul, absolutely torn up by the roots -- her whole self laid bare; and to a man who evidently didn't care; who couldn't have cared. I don't mean to read another line; it's too much like listening at a keyhole."
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Edith Wharton |
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All the elderly ladies whom Archer knew regarded any woman who loved imprudently as necessarily unscrupulous and designing, and mere simple-minded man as powerless in her clutches. The
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Rich and idle and ornamental societies must produce many more such situations;
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Edith Wharton |
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put into words by this selfish, well-fed, and supremely indifferent old man it suddenly became the Pharisaic voice of a society wholly absorbed in barricading itself against the unpleasant.
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Edith Wharton |
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one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.
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Edith Wharton |
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Don't let us be like all the others! she protested.
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Edith Wharton |
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Cuando un hombre amaba a una mujer esta siempre tenia la edad que el quisiera; y cuando dejaba de amarla se convertia en demasiado vieja para los hechizos o en demasiado joven para la tecnica .
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Edith Wharton |
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Znao je da je nesto propustio: bit zivota. Ali je o njoj sad mislio kao o necemu tako nedostiznom i nevjerojatnom da bi zaliti za njom bilo kao da ocajavas sto na lutriji nisi dobio glavni zgoditak. U njegovoj lutriji bilo je 100 milijuna srecki, a samo jedan dobitak; izgledi su mu zacijelo bili nikakvi. Kad bi mislio na Ellen Olensku, cinio bi to apstraktno spokojno, kao sto bi covjek mogao misliti na kakvu imaginarnu voljenu iz kakve knji..
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Edith Wharton |
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and strolled into the other room.
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Edith Wharton |
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You might as well tell me there was nobody but Adam in the garden when Eve picked the apple. You say your wife was discontented? No woman ever knows she's discontented till some man tells her so. My God! I've seen smash-ups before now; but I never yet saw a marriage dissolved like a business partnership.
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Edith Wharton |
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But it is comparatively easy to behave beautifully when one is getting what one wants, and when some one else, who has not always been altogether kind, is not.
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Edith Wharton |
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Nineteenth-century America was gone; twentieth-century America was alien. "All that I thought American in a true sense is gone, and I see nothing but vain-glory, crassness and a total ignorance . . . ," she wrote. She began to reconsider the old, lost world. What had seemed once petty and insular now seemed valuable and dignified; the rules, she saw, had been founded on moral principle. "I am steeping myself in the nineteenth century," she ..
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But his marital education had since made strides, and he now knew that a disregard for money may imply not the willingness to get on without it but merely a blind confidence that it will somehow be provided.
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Edith Wharton |
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Iar tu ai sa stai langa mine si o sa privim realitatea, nu inchipuirile.
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Edith Wharton |
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The telephone clicked, and Archer, turning from the photographs, unhooked the transmitter at his elbow. How far they were from the days when the legs of the brass-buttoned messenger boy had been New York's only means of quick communication! "Chicago wants you."
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Edith Wharton |
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Mrs. Grancy acquired the charm which makes some women's faces like a book of which the last page is never turned. There was always something new to read in her eyes. What Claydon read there--or at least such scattered
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Edith Wharton |
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In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs; as
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Edith Wharton |
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marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.
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Edith Wharton |
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Cat de mult se vor putea cunoaste unul pe altul, cand datoria lui de om "cumsecade" era sa nu-i destainuie trecutul, iar a ei, ca fata de maritat, sa nu aiba nici un fel de trecut de ascuns?"
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Edith Wharton |
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e o fata delicioasa: n-am mai vazut o a doua fiinta atat de desteapta si de draguta. Esti tare indragostit de ea? Newland Archer rase rosind: - Cat poate fi un barbat.
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varsta-inocentei
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Edith Wharton |
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E ora mea favorita... nu e si a dumitale?
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Edith Wharton |
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Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative. She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could not help modelling herself on the last person she met, and the confusion of ideals thus produced caused her much perturbation when she had to choose between two courses.
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Edith Wharton |
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It was characteristic of her that she remembered her failures as keenly as her triumphs, and that the passionate desire to obliterate, to "get even" with them, was always among the latent incentives of her conduct."
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