Edith Wharton Quotes

Edith Wharton Quotes

Edith Wharton Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Edith Wharton:

"Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue."

"Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near by freedom of death."

"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."

"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."

"Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?"

"After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others."

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