cap. XIV, p. 123
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Edith Wharton frasi celebri
cap. XI, p. 94
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cap. XVIII, p. 158
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“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
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Edith Wharton: Frasi in inglese
“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.”
The Writing of Fiction (1925), ch. I
Sanctuary http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/books/snctr10.txt, (1903) part II, ch. IV
Letter to Barrett Wendell (19 July 1919)
Origine: A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934), Ch. 3
"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.”
Origine: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 34
Origine: A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934), Ch. 8
"The House of Mirth" http://www.readprint.com/chapter-10542/The-House-of-Mirth-Edith-Wharton (1905), bk. 1, ch. 6
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.”
"The Other Two," ch. 1, from The Descent of Man and Other Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/tdmos10.txt (1904)