In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

Edith Wharton · The Age of Innocence (1920), ch. 6

Life is always a tight-rope or a feather-bed. Give me the tight-rope.

Edith Wharton · Diary entry (March 23, 1926)

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

Edith Wharton · The House of Mirth (1905), bk. I, ch. 6

There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.

Edith Wharton · A Backward Glance (1934), A First Word

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Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

John Berger · Ways of Seeing (1972), ch. 3

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Michel de Montaigne · Essays, III, 9

The truth doesn't fit into one heart, into one mind; truth is somehow splintered.

Svetlana Alexievich · The source reads: “It always troubled me that the truth doesn't fit into one heart, into one mind, that truth is somehow splintered. There's a lot of it, it is varied, and it is strewn about the world.” · Nobel Lecture (2015)

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“In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.”

“Life is always a tight-rope or a feather-bed. Give me the tight-rope.”

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

“There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.”

“Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”

“There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.”

“The truth doesn't fit into one heart, into one mind; truth is somehow splintered.”