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Quotation from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
“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”
The Age of Innocence, Book I, Chapter VI (Project Gutenberg #541)
Archer reflects on the manners of his society.
Citation: "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, Book I, Chapter VI (Project Gutenberg #541). (id wharton-the-age-of-innocence-q1)
