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

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

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Explore more quotes by Edith Wharton

"As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath."

Compassion

"The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. In this case it's a great deal easier to believe Bertha Dorset's story than mine, because she has a big house and an opera box, and it's convenient to be on good terms with her."

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

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"When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say."

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"The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done."

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"As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other's angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep."

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"But it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune."

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Responsibility