Frases de Edith Wharton (108 citações, página 3)

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“Não é verdade, monsieur, que o grande valor está em manter a própria liberdade intelectual, em não escravizar o nosso poder de apreciação, a nossa independência crítica?”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence

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

Edith Wharton livro Ethan Frome

"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.”

Edith Wharton

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

“Há senhoras que seguem a cultura em bandos, como se fosse perigoso encontrá-la sozinhas.”

Edith Wharton

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“Se ao menos parássemos de tentar ser felizes, nós poderíamos nos divertir bastante.”

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton: Frases em inglês

“There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.”

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“I can't love you unless I give you up.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Fonte: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 18

“Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears.'
Well, she has opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say she blinds people. What she does is the contrary-she fastens their eyelids open, so they're never again in the blessed darkness.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Fonte: The Age of Innocence

“It was the old New York way of taking life "without effusion of blood": the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes," except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Fonte: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 33

“Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Fonte: The Age of Innocence

“You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.”

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“They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.”

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Edith Wharton livro The House of Mirth

Fonte: The House of Mirth

“There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Fonte: The Age of Innocence

“And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them…”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Fonte: The Age of Innocence

“Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Fonte: The Age of Innocence

“The only way to not think about money is to have a great deal of it."

You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe.”

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Edith Wharton livro The House of Mirth

Fonte: The House of Mirth

“Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your
old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart”

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Edith Wharton livro The House of Mirth

Fonte: The House of Mirth

“Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Fonte: The Age of Innocence

“Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Fonte: The Age of Innocence

“It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.”

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“Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.”

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Edith Wharton livro The House of Mirth

Fonte: The House of Mirth

“No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.”

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Edith Wharton livro The House of Mirth

Fonte: "The House of Mirth" http://books.google.com/books?id=plFdLlYHwZ8C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=No+insect+hangs+its+nest+on+threads+as+frail+as+those+which+will+sustain+the+weight+of+human+vanity.&source=bl&ots=j0EPPhjIZW&sig=MQMjyNy5yKK97Ok4bGqRWfC3obE&hl=en&ei=T5F0TMqyMIuisAOczpyMBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=No%20insect%20hangs%20its%20nest%20on%20threads%20as%20frail%20as%20those%20which%20will%20sustain%20the%20weight%20of%20human%20vanity.&f=false (1905), ch. X, pg. 69

“Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.”

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Edith Wharton

Fonte: Xingu and other Stories

“How I hate everything!”

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Edith Wharton Summer

Fonte: Summer

“She had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for it all.”

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Edith Wharton livro Ethan Frome

Fonte: Ethan Frome

“… It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Fonte: The Age of Innocence

“What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.”

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“I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author’s political views.”

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Letter to Upton Sinclair (19 August 1927)

“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.”

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The House of Mirth http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/hmirt10.txt (1905), bk.1, ch. 6

“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe,
Old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.”

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Edith Wharton

Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road" http://www.bartleby.com/142/82., 12, Leaves of Grass (1855)
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“Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?”

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Nadine Gordimer, "The Essential Gesture: Writers and Responsibility" http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/gordimer85.pdf, The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, University of Michigan (12 October 1984), p. 9
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