She had never been able to understand the laws of a universe which was so ready to leave her out of its calculations.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.Edith Wharton
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
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Grace Stepney's mind was like a kind of moral fly-paper, to which the buzzing items of gossip were drawn by a fatal attraction, and where they hung fast in the toils of an inexorable memory.
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They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods
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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
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