Another unsettling element in modern art is that common sym… - Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton (24 January 1862 – 11 August 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer and designer.

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Birth Name: Edith Newbold Jones

Alternative Names: Edith Newbold Jones Wharton • Edith Jones • Wharton, Edith, 1862–1937

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His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.

She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.

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

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