Frases de Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton foi uma escritora americana. Venceu o Prémio Pulitzer de Ficção, em 1921, pelo romance The Age of Innocence .

✵ 24. Janeiro 1862 – 11. Agosto 1937   •   Outros nomes Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
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Edith Wharton Frases famosas

“Há duas maneiras de espalhar a luz: ser a vela, ou o espelho que a reflete.”

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it".
Ethan Frome‎ - Página vii, Edith Wharton - EMC/Paradigm Pub., 1998, ISBN 0821916491, 9780821916490 - 128 páginas

“Ele desejava-a tal como ela era e não como ela gostaria de ter sido.”

that he wanted her as she was, and not as she would have liked to be
The roof: a novel‎ - Página 121, Edith Wharton - Syndicate pub. co., 1912 - 366 páginas

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Edith Wharton: Frases em inglês

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

Edith Wharton livro The House of Mirth

Fonte: The House of Mirth

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

Edith Wharton livro The House of Mirth

Fonte: 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.”

"Vesalius in Zante (1564)" http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/whartpoe2.htm#Vesalius%20in%20Zante.%20(1564), in North American Review (November 1902), p. 625
Fonte: Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

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

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Fonte: The Age of Innocence

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

"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.

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

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

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

Edith Wharton livro The House of Mirth

Fonte: The House of Mirth

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