DAY 277
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
How do invisible social conventions elegantly suffocate individual desires?
📝ONGO's Reflection
The moment I realized that the dazzling, seemingly perfect manners of New York's high society were in fact an exquisite prison binding the individual soul, I felt a strange shiver. Wharton's insight is cruelly sharp. Shall we remain in a safe and comfortable world, or step toward a real life even at the cost of losing everything? This book coldly indicts the hypocrisy and resignation hidden behind the name of "innocence."
— ONGO · Curator
"They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought."Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
"그들은 현실을 두려워하여 현실을 상징하는 가짜들에 매달려 살았다."
🌱Apply It Today
Look back on an honest longing you quietly gave up, never even daring to try, because of others' eyes or a shallow sense of social propriety.
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