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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

“At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XX : Persistence; Mr. Maxwell to Helen

“Don't you know that every time we meet the thoughts of the final parting will become more painful? Don't you feel that every interview makes us dearer to each other than the last?”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

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

“You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.”

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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

“Though I hate him from my heart, and should rejoice at any calamity that could befall him, I'll leave him to God; and though I abhor my own life, I'll leave that, too, to Him that gave it.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXVIII : The Injured Man; Lord Lowborough to Ralph

“If you mean Mr. Weston to be one of your victims," said I, with affected indifference, "you will have to make such overtures yourself that you will find it difficult to draw back when he asks you to fulfil the expectations you have raised.”

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Anne Brontë livre Agnes Grey

Source: Agnes Grey (1847), Ch. XVI : The Substitution

“If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. VI : Progression; Gilbert to Mrs. Markham

“The more you loved your God the more deep and pure and true would be your love to me.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXIII : First weeks of Matrimony; Helen to Arthur

“Whatever my husband's faults may be, it can only aggravate the evil for me to hear them from a stranger's lips.”

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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

“No one can be happy in eternal solitude.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. VII : The Excursion; Helen to Fergus

“If your wife gives you her heart, you must take it, thankfully, and use it well, and not pull it in pieces, and laugh in her face, because she cannot snatch it away.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXIV : First Quarrel; Helen to Arthur

“He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLIV : The Boundary Post; Helen Graham

“I think your piety one of your greatest charms; but then, like all other good things, it may be carried too far. To my thinking, a woman's religion ought not to lessen her devotion to her earthly lord. She should have enough to purify and etherealise her soul, but not enough to refine away her heart, and raise her above all human sympathies.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXIII : First weeks of Matrimony; Arthur to Helen

“It is a woman's nature to be constant — to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXVII : Misdemeanour; Arthur to Helen

“I sometimes think she has no feeling at all; and then I go on till she cries — and that satisfies me.”

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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 Helen

“How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

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

“"I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all is not the enjoyment of my company — why — it will be the worse for him — that's all."
"If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry — or rather, you must avoid it altogether."”

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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 and Esther

“God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness — and Love; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties — if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who condescended to take our nature upon Him, who was raised to heaven even in His glorified human body, in whom the fullness of the Godhead shines.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLIX : "The Rain Descended..."; Helen to Arthur

“As an animal, Matilda was all right, full of life, vigour, and activity; as an intelligent being, she was barbarously ignorant, indocile, careless, and irrational; and consequently, very distressing to one who had the task of cultivating her understanding, reforming her manners, and aiding her to acquire those ornamental attainments which, unlike her sister, she despised as much as the rest…”

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Anne Brontë livre Agnes Grey

Source: Agnes Grey (1847), Ch. VII : Horton Lodge

“"I have often wished in vain," said she, "for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplation of a single object as to become almost incapable of forming a proper idea respecting it."
"That," replied I, "is only one of many evils to which a solitary life exposes us."”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. VII : The Excursion; Helen and Gilbert

“When a lady condescends to apologize, there is no keeping one’s anger.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. V : The Studio; Gilbert Markham

“I settled everything with Mrs. Grey, while you were putting on your bonnet," replied he. "She said I might have her consent, if I could obtain yours; and I asked her, in case I should be so happy, to come and live with us — for I was sure you would like it better. But she refused, saying she could now afford to employ an assistant, and would continue the school till she could purchase an annuity sufficient to maintain her in comfortable lodgings; and, meantime, she would spend her vacations alternately with us and your sister, and should be quite contented if you were happy. And so now I have overruled your objections on her account. Have you any other?"
"No — none."
"You love me then?”

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Anne Brontë livre Agnes Grey

said he, fervently pressing my hand.
"Yes."
Source: Agnes Grey (1847), Ch. XXV : Conclusion

“I will not allow myself to be worse than my fellows.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

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

“There is perfect love in heaven!”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

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

“You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XX : Persistence; Mrs. Maxwell to Helen

“It is quite possible to be a good Christian without ceasing to be a happy, merry-hearted man.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXIII : First weeks of Matrimony; Helen to Arthur

“It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. II : An Interview; Gilbert to Eliza

“The demon of drink was as black as the demon of play, and nearly as hard to get rid of — especially as his kind friends did all they could to second the promptings of his own insatiable cravings.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXII : Traits of Friendship; Arthur to Helen

“Friends as we are, we would willingly keep your failings to ourselves — even from ourselves if we could, unless by knowing them we could deliver you from them.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

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

“It is never too late to reform, as long as you have the sense to desire it, and the strength to execute your purpose.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

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

“To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

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

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