Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. -Edith Wharton

 

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.


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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Edith Wharton

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Edith Wharton

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton