Edith Wharton Quote

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.

An Edith Wharton treasury (ed. 1950)

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...