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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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“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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“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.”

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The Writing of Fiction (1925), ch. I

“It was part of her discernment to be aware that life is the only real counselor, that wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissues.”

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Sanctuary http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/books/snctr10.txt, (1903) part II, ch. IV

“How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be "American" before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, & having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?”

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Letter to Barrett Wendell (19 July 1919)

“I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.”

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Source: A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934), Ch. 3

“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”

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The Writing of Fiction (1925), ch. I

“Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.”

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"A First Word"
A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934)

“The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 34

“To James's intimates, however, these elaborate hesitancies, far from being an obstacle, were like a cobweb bridge flung from his mind to theirs, an invisible passage over which one knew that silver-footed ironies, veiled jokes, tiptoe malices, were stealing to explode a huge laugh at one's feet.”

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Source: A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934), Ch. 8

“He had come on her that morning in a moment of disarray; her face had been pale and altered, and the diminution of her beauty had lent her a poignant charm. That is how she looks when she is alone! had been his first thought; and the second was to note in her the change which his coming produced.”

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"The House of Mirth" http://www.readprint.com/chapter-10542/The-House-of-Mirth-Edith-Wharton (1905), bk. 1, ch. 6

“After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them & invent others that (one is fairly sure) don't exist — or exist in a less measure.”

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Letter to Robert Grant (19 November 1907)

“I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.”

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Letter to John Hugh Smith (12 February 1909), published in The Letters of Edith Wharton (1988)

“A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.”

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"The Other Two," ch. 1, from The Descent of Man and Other Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/tdmos10.txt (1904)

“Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.”

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