Edith Wharton quote about reality from The Age of Innocence - 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
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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
 Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920). copy citation

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Author Edith Wharton
Source The Age of Innocence
Topic reality etiquette
Date 1920
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/541/541-h/541-h.htm

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