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Edith Wharton, née Edith Newbold Jones à New York le 24 janvier 1862 et morte à Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt le 11 août 1937, est une romancière américaine.

✵ 24. janvier 1862 – 11. août 1937  •  Autres noms Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
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Edith Wharton Citations

“Mais, en attendant, c'était déjà merveilleux de s'asseoir dans le coin d'une salle silencieuse, avec des volumes empilés en face de lui, les mains plongées dans les cheveux, l'âme immergée dans un monde nouveau”

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“We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.”

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“She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.”

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Edith Wharton livre The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.”

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Edith Wharton livre The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 1

“Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”

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Edith Wharton livre The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
I loved light ever, light in eye and brain —
No tapers mirrored in long palace floors,
Nor dedicated depths of silent aisles,
But just the common dusty wind-blown day
That roofs earth's millions.”

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Edith Wharton

&quot;Vesalius in Zante (1564)&quot; http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/whartpoe2.htm#Vesalius%20in%20Zante.%20(1564), in North American Review (November 1902), p. 625 <br class="br">Source: Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

“Each time you happen to me all over again.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.”

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Source: Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be
The candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

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"Vesalius in Zante (1564)", in North American Review (November 1902), p. 631
Variante: There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.

“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: 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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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.”

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“I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.”

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“My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.”

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Variante: My little old dog
a heart-beat
at my feet

“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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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”

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&quot;A First Word&quot; <br class="br"> A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934)

“I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”

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“She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.”

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Edith Wharton livre The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.”

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Source: A Backward Glance

“His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.”

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Edith Wharton livre The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”

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Edith Wharton livre The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

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