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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

“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.”

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

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Edith Wharton: Frases em inglês

“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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Fonte: 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

Fonte: 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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Fonte: 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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Edith Wharton livro The House of Mirth

"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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