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“Lorsqu’on traite du vice et de caractères vicieux, je soutiens qu’il vaut mieux les peindre comme ils sont vraiment plutôt que comme ils voudraient l’être. Représenter le mal sous le jour le moins blessant, voilà sans doute la route la plus commode pour l’auteur de fiction, mais est-ce la plus honnête, ou la plus sûre? Vaut-il mieux révéler les pièges et les chausse-trapes de la vie au voyageur jeune et irréfléchi, ou les couvrir de branches et de fleurs? Ô lecteur! Si l’on s’interdisait davantage ces délicates dissimulations des réalités, ces « Paix! Paix! » chuchotés là où il n’y a pas de paix, péchés et souffrances ne toucheraient pas tant la jeunesse des deux sexes, réduite à extraire l’amère vérité de l’expérience.”

Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Roman, La Recluse de Wildfell Hall, 1848

“Lorsque je te conseille de ne pas te marier sans amour, cela ne veut pas dire que l'amour seul suffit… il y a bien d'autres questions à envisager. Garde ton cœur et ta main le plus longtemps possible, ne les donne pas sans réfléchir. Si tu ne trouves jamais le mari idéal, console-toi en te disant que si les joies du célibat ne sont pas nombreuses, les douleurs du moins n'en sont jamais insupportables. Il est possible que ta vie de femme mariée soit plus heureuse que ta vie de jeune fille, mais bien souvent c'est le contraire qui se produit.”

Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Roman, La Recluse de Wildfell Hall, 1848

“Je souhaitais dire la vérité, car la vérité exprime toujours sa propre morale à qui sait la voir. Mais, puisque l’inestimable trésor est trop souvent caché au fond du puits, il faut du courage pour s’enfoncer à sa recherche, d’autant qu’on a toute chance de récolter plus de mépris et d’opprobre à plonger dans la boue et l’eau, que de remerciements pour le joyau exhumé; de même, qui entreprend de nettoyer l’intérieur d’un célibataire négligent se verra davantage reprocher la poussière soulevée que félicité pour l’ordre qu’il instaure.”

Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Roman, La Recluse de Wildfell Hall, 1848

“Je suis pour moi assuré qu’un bon livre ne doit pas son excellence au sexe de son auteur. Tous les livres sont écrits — ou devraient l’être — pour être lus des hommes comme des femmes, et je ne vois pas pourquoi un homme se permettrait d’écrire ce qui serait vraiment déshonorant chez une femme, et pas davantage pourquoi l’on reprocherait à une femme d’écrire ce qui serait convenable et bienséant chez un homme.”

Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Roman, La Recluse de Wildfell Hall, 1848

Anne Brontë: Citations en anglais

“I can't love it — what is there to love? It can't love me — or you either; it can't understand a single word you say to it, or feel one spark of gratitude for all your kindness. Wait till it can show some little affection for me, and then I'll see about loving it. At present it is nothing more than a little selfish, senseless sensualist, and if you see anything adorable in it, it's all very well — I only wonder how you can.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXVIII : Parental Feelings; Arthur to Helen

“His idea of a wife is a thing to love one devotedly, and to stay at home — to wait upon her husband, and amuse him and minister to his comfort in every possible way, while he chooses to stay with her; and, when he is absent, to attend to his interests, domestic or otherwise, and patiently wait his return; no matter how he may be occupied in the meantime.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXIX : The Neighbour; Helen Graham

“You're at that game of threatening me with the loss of your affection again, are you? I think it couldn't have been very genuine stuff to begin with, if it's so easily demolished.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXX : Domestic Scenes; Arthur to Helen

“Those, whose time is fully occupied, seldom complain of solitude.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXIX : The Neighbour; Helen to Walter

“And, O! there lives within my heart
A hope long nursed by me,
(And should its cheering ray depart
How dark my soul would be)

That as in Adam all have died
In Christ shall all men live
And ever round his throne abide
Eternal praise to give;

That even the wicked shall at last
Be fitted for the skies
And when their dreadful doom is past
To life and light arise.”

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Anne Brontë livre Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), A Word to the Calvinists (1843)

“Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but, in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLI : Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast; Helen to Esther

“"Why," said I — "why should you suppose that I dislike the place?"
"You told me so yourself," was the decisive reply. "You said, at least, that you could not live contentedly, without a friend; and that you had no friend here, and no possibility of making one — and, besides, I know you must dislike it."”

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Anne Brontë livre Agnes Grey

Source: Agnes Grey (1847), Ch. XX : The Farewell

“I know not whether, at the time, it was not for him rather than myself that I blushed; for, since he and I are one, I so identify myself with him, that I feel his degradation, his failings, and transgressions as my own; I blush for him, I fear for him; I repent for him, weep, pray, and feel for him as for myself; but I cannot act for him; and hence, I must be and I am, debased, contaminated by the union, both in my own eyes, and in the actual truth.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXX : Domestic Scenes; Helen Graham

“If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. IX : A Snake in the Grass; Gilbert to Eliza

“You may have as many words as you please, – only I can’t stay to hear them.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. III : A Controversy; Helen to Gilbert

“I'd rather be like myself, bad as I am.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLII : A Reformation; Ralph to Helen

“Instead of combating my slight prejudice against you as uncharitable, I mean to cherish it, until I am convinced that I have no reason to distrust this kind, insinuating friendship you are so anxious to push upon me.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXIX : The Neighbour; Helen to Walter

“In love affairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child — ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. X : A Contract and a Quarrel; Gilbert Markham

“I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. III : A Controversy; Helen to Gilbert

“I wish I could see how the ocean is lashing
The foam of its billows to whirlwinds of spray;
I wish I could see how its proud waves are dashing,
And hear the wild roar of their thunder today!”

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Anne Brontë livre Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day (1842)

“This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not sympathise with my distresses, but then it will not laugh at them, and, if I keep it close, it cannot tell again; so it is, perhaps, the best friend I could have for the purpose.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVIII : The Miniature; Helen Graham

“However little you may esteem them as individuals, it is not pleasant to be looked upon as a liar and a hypocrite, to be thought to practice what you abhor, and to encourage the vices you would discountenance, to find your good intentions frustrated, and your hands crippled by your supposed unworthiness, and to bring disgrace on the principles you profess.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XII : A Tête-à-tête and a Discovery; Gilbert and Helen

“"But I can't devote myself entirely to a child," said she; "it may die — which is not at all improbable."
"But, with care, many a delicate infant has become a strong man or woman."
"But it may grow so intolerably like its father that I shall hate it."
"That is not likely; it is a little girl, and strongly resembles its mother."”

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Anne Brontë livre Agnes Grey

Source: Agnes Grey (1847), Ch. XXIII : The Park

“I am truly miserable — more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVIII : The Miniature; Helen Graham

“If you loved as I do, she earnestly replied, you would not have so nearly lost me — these scruples of false delicacy and pride would never thus have troubled you — you would have seen that the greatest worldly distinctions and discrepancies of rank, birth, and fortune are as dust in the balance compared with the unity of accordant thoughts and feelings, and truly loving, sympathising hearts and souls.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. LIII : Conclusion; Helen to Gilbert

“Say does your heart expand to all mankind
And would you ever to your neighbour do,
— The weak, the strong, the enlightened and the blind —
As you would have your neighbour do to you?

And, when you, looking on your fellow men
Behold them doomed to endless misery,
How can you talk of joy and rapture then?
May God withhold such cruel joy from me!”

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Anne Brontë livre Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), A Word to the Calvinists (1843)

“"Oh, Richard!" exclaimed she, on one occasion, "if you would but dismiss such gloomy subjects from your mind, you would live as long as any of us; at least you would live to see the girls married, and yourself a happy grandfather, with a canty old dame for your companion."”

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Anne Brontë livre Agnes Grey

Source: Agnes Grey (1847), Ch. VI : The Parsonage Again

“I've done you a piece of good service, Nancy," he began: then seeing me, he acknowledged my presence by a slight bow. I should have been invisible to Hatfield, or any other gentleman of those parts. "I've delivered your cat," he continued, "from the hands, or rather the gun, of Mr. Murray's gamekeeper.”

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Anne Brontë livre Agnes Grey

Source: Agnes Grey (1847), Ch. XII : The Shower

“I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater. Some parents have entirely prohibited their children from tasting intoxicating liquors; but a parent’s authority cannot last for ever; children are naturally prone to hanker after forbidden things; and a child, in such a case, would be likely to have a strong curiosity to taste, and try the effect of what has been so lauded and enjoyed by others, so strictly forbidden to himself – which curiosity would generally be gratified on the first convenient opportunity; and the restraint once broken, serious consequences might ensue.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. IV : The Party; Frederick to Reverend Millward

“Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows,
Assist his friends, forgive his foes;
Trust God, and keep his statutes still,
Upright and firm, through good and ill;

Thankful for all that God has given,
Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven;
Knowing that earthly joys decay,
But hoping through the darkest day.”

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Anne Brontë livre Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas (1845)

“A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can’t complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXII : Comparisons: Information Rejected; Ralph to Milicent

“He despises me, because he knows I love him.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVIII : The Miniature; Helen Graham

“You may rejoice to think yourselves secure,
You may be grateful for the gift divine,
That grace unsought which made your black hearts pure
And fits your earthborn souls in Heaven to shine.
But is it sweet to look around and view
Thousands excluded from that happiness,
Which they deserve at least as much as you,
Their faults not greater nor their virtues less?”

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Anne Brontë livre Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), A Word to the Calvinists (1843)

“What are their thoughts to you or me, so long as we are satisfied with ourselves — and each other.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XII : A Tête-à-tête and a Discovery; Gilbert to Helen

“The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVI : The Warning of Experience; Mr. Boarham to Helen

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