What did Edith Wharton mean by: A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. Edith Wharton Novelist · United Copy
+ Everybody who does anything at all does too much. Author, September 11, 2023January 2, 2025, Edith Wharton, Balance, Overwhelm, Productivity, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ The worst of doing one’s duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Consequences, Duty, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ The only thing to do is to hug one’s friends tight and do one’s job. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Friendship, Support, Work, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Emptiness, Resilience, Sorrow, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ Her failure was a useful preliminary to success. Author, August 24, 2023January 2, 2025, Edith Wharton, Failure, Progress, Success, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care. Author, October 9, 2023January 2, 2025, Edith Wharton, Art, Care, Joy, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death. Author, August 27, 2023January 2, 2025, Edith Wharton, Death, Life, Sadness, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ … naturalness is not always consonant with taste. Author, July 4, 2023January 2, 2025, Edith Wharton, Dichotomy, Naturalness, Taste, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
I don’t understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it’s a mind-altering possibility. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
