Edith Wharton quote about ideas from The Age of Innocence - Ah, good conversation—there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Ah, good conversation—there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
 Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920). copy citation

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

Context

“There is a good deal of drudgery, of course; but one preserves one's moral freedom, what we call in French one's quant a soi. And when one hears good talk one can join in it without compromising any opinions but one's own; or one can listen, and answer it inwardly. Ah, good conversation—there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. And so I have never regretted giving up either diplomacy or journalism—two different forms of the same self-abdication." He fixed his vivid eyes on Archer as he lit another cigarette. "Voyez-vous, Monsieur, to be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?” source

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