The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Quote by Edith Wharton

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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of...

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of...

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret...

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret...

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

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

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything...

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything...

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in,...

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in,...

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes,...

It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes,...

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into...

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into...

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I...

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I...

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

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

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in...

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in...

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in...

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in...

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of...

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of...

If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.