cap. XI, p. 94
Estate
Frasi di Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
Data di nascita: 24. Gennaio 1862
Data di morte: 11. Agosto 1937
Altri nomi: Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Edith Wharton è stata una scrittrice statunitense.
Frasi Edith Wharton
cap. XIV, p. 123
Estate
cap. XVIII, p. 158
Estate
„Ci sono due modi di diffondere luce: essere la candela oppure essere lo specchio che la riflette.“
da Vesalius in Zante, in Clifford Pickover, Surfing through Hyperspace, p. 118
„La felicità è un'opera d'arte. Trattatela con cura.“
da Il canto delle muse, traduzione di Marta Morazzoni, Corbaccio
cap. XIII, p. 115
Estate
„Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.“
— Edith Wharton, libro The House of Mirth
Origine: The House of Mirth
"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
Origine: Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
„Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.“
Journal entry (March 1926)
„Each time you happen to me all over again.“
— Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Origine: The Age of Innocence
Origine: Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
„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.
„The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!“
— Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Origine: The Age of Innocence
— Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Origine: The Age of Innocence
„We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?“
— Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Origine: The Age of Innocence