Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of tu… - Edith Wharton

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Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Edith Wharton

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About Edith Wharton

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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In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

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