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There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.
— Edith Wharton Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
Tags: happiness

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
— 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?
— Edith Wharton
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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.
— Edith Wharton
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
— Edith Wharton
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What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
— Edith Wharton
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