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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

“She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

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

“It’s well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced.”

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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; Eliza to Gilbert

“I ever give a thought to another, you may well spare it, for those fancies are here and gone like a flash of lightning, while my love for you burns on steadily, and for ever, like the sun.”

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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

“There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XI : The Vicar Again; Gilbert to Rose

“Of him to whom less is given, less will be required, but our utmost exertions are required of us all.”

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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

“And you thought to rob me of my son too, and bring him up to be a dirty Yankee tradesman, or a low, beggarly painter?"
"Yes, to obviate his becoming such a gentleman as his father.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XL : A Misadventure; Helen and Arthur

“God have mercy on his miserable soul! and make him see and feel his guilt — I ask no other vengeance! If he could but fully know and truly feel my wrongs I should be well avenged, and I could freely pardon all.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

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

“I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I — of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.”

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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 Helen

“God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXVIV : A Scheme of Escape; Helen to Little Arthur

“That none deserve eternal bliss I know:
Unmerited the grace in mercy given,
But none shall sink to everlasting woe
That have not well deserved the wrath of Heaven.”

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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)

“I know I owe my all to Thee,
O, take this heart I cannot give.
Do Thou my Strength my Saviour be;
And make me to Thy glory live!”

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

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), A Prayer (1844)

“Never mind our kind friends: if they can part our bodies, it is enough; in God's name, let them not sunder our souls!”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

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

“He knows he is my sun, but when he chooses to withhold his light, he would have my sky to be all darkness; he cannot bear that I should have a moon to mitigate the deprivation.”

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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

“Revenge! No — what good would that do? — it would make him no better, and me no happier.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

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

“A hardness such as this is taught by rough experience and despair alone.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXVIV : A Scheme of Escape; Helen Graham

“A burst of passion is a fine rousing thing upon occasion, Helen, and a flood of tears is marvellously affecting, but, when indulged too often, they are both deuced plaguy things for spoiling one's beauty and tiring out one's friends.”

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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

“A light wind swept over the corn; and all nature laughed in the sunshine.”

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Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XV : An Encounter and its Consequences; Gilbert Markham

“A girl's affections should never be won unsought.”

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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; Mrs. Maxwell to Helen

“When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it — to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

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

“Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.”

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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

“It is a troublesome thing this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. L : Doubts and Disappointments; Gilbert to Jack Halford

“Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse I will try to benefit too; and when I feel it my duty to speak an unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, though it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my readers immediate pleasure as well as my own.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Preface, 2nd edition (22 July 1848)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

“Life and hope must cease together.”

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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 to Milicent

“Where hope rises fear must lurk behind.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

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

“I do believe a young lady can't be too careful who she marries.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

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

“The greater the happiness that nature sets before me, the more I lament that he is not here to taste it: the greater the bliss we might enjoy together, the more I feel our present wretchedness apart.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXV : First Absence; Helen Graham

“Bad news fly fast.”

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Anne Brontë livre La Recluse de Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XIV : An Assault; Gilbert Markham

“All our talents increase in the using, and the every faculty, both good and bad, strengthen by exercise.”

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