Edith Wharton Quotes.

1. "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it."
- Quote by Edith Wharton

2. "My little old dog a heart-beat at my feet"
- Quote by Edith Wharton

3. "Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope."
- Quote by Edith Wharton

4. "If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time."
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5. "There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it."
- Quote by Edith Wharton

6. "I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting."
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7. "There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul."
- Quote by Edith Wharton

8. "My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet."
- Quote by Edith Wharton

9. "In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways."
- Quote by Edith Wharton

10. "What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath."
- Quote by Edith Wharton