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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent.

Stanley Kubrick

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Topic

Nature of the universe The universe

Speaker

Stanley Kubrick

Source

Playboy

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Kubrick, Stanley. "Playboy Interview: Stanley Kubrick." Interviewed by Eric Norden. Playboy, Sept. 1968.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

Arthur Schopenhauer

On Women

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Topic

Nature of women

Author

Arthur Schopenhauer

Source

On Women Parerga and Paralipomena

Language

German

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Ueber die Weiber [On Women]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 2, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

Current Citation

Schopenhauer, Arthur. "On Women." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Just as I am - without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bidst me come to Thee,
-O Lamb of God, I come!

Charlotte Elliott

Just as I Am

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Topic

God and man Forgiveness of sins

Author

Charlotte Elliott

Source

Just as I Am

Medium

Hymn Song

Language

English

Time

1834 1830s 20th century

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Citation

Elliott, Charlotte. "Just as I am." Christian Remembrancer, c. 1835.

I can remember absolutely everything, young man, that's my curse. That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.

Citizen Kane

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Topic

Memory

Speaker

Jedediah Leland

Actor

Joseph Cotten

Source

Citizen Kane

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Citizen Kane. Directed by Orson Welles. RKO Radio Pictures/Mercury Productions, 1941.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Topic

Passion

Author

Sir Walter Raleigh

Source

The Silent Lover

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1618 1610s 17th century

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Original Citation

Raleigh, Walter. Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen. London, 1655, I. 1.

Current Citation

Raleigh, Walter. "Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen." The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

But true Love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning;
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Topic

True love Love

Author

Sir Walter Raleigh

Source

Walsinghame

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1580 1580s 16th century

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Original Citation

Raleigh, Walter. Walsinghame. London, c. 1580, I. 41.

Current Citation

Raleigh, Walter. "As You Came from the Holy Land." The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 41.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Josephine Hart

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Topic

Suffering Adversity Survival

Speaker

Anna

Author

Josephine Hart

Source

Damage

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Hart, Josephine. Damage. Alfred A. Knopf/Chatto & Windus, 1991, ch. 12.

My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

William Sharp

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Topic

Existential solitude

Author

William Sharp

Source

The Lonely Hunter

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1896 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Sharp, William [published as Fiona McLeod]. "The Lonely Hunter." From the Hills of Dream. Edinburgh: Patrick Geddes & Colleagues, 1896.

He felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness—the sense that that is where we really belong.

Graham Greene

The Heart of the Matter

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Topic

Unhappiness Melancholy Depression

Author

Graham Greene

Source

The Heart of the Matter

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. William Heinemann/The Viking Press, 1948, bk. 2, pt. 2, sec. 1.

And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Topic

Dying for one's country Dying for one's religion

Author

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Source

Horatius Lays of Ancient Rome

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1842 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Horatius." Lays of Ancient Rome. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842, st. 27.

Man, it’s the same bullshit they tried to pull in my day. You know, if it ain’t that piece of paper, there’s some other choice they’re gonna try and make for you. You gotta do what Randall "Pink" Floyd wants to do, man. Let me tell you this: the older you do get, the more rules they’re gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin’, man, L-I-V-I-N.

Dazed and Confused

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Topic

Following your heart Society and the individual The man

Speaker

David Wooderson

Actor

Matthew McConaughey

Source

Dazed and Confused

Medium

Film

Genre

Coming of age (film) Comedy (film) Coming of age Comedy

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Dazed and Confused. Directed by Richard Linklater, Detour Filmproduction/Alphaville Films, 1993.

When guys cheat, it’s like we want something new. But then you know what happens? Your woman finds out, and now she’s new. She is never the same again.

Chris Rock

Tamborine

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Topic

Infidelity Men and women

Speaker

Chris Rock

Source

Tamborine

Medium

Standup comedy

Genre

Comedy

Language

English

Time

2018 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Tamborine. Netflix, 14 Feb. 2018.

The Day in its hotness,
The strife with the palm;
The Night in its silence,
The Stars in their calm.

Matthew Arnold

Empedocles on Etna

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Topic

Night and day

Author

Matthew Arnold

Source

Empedocles on Etna

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1852 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "Empedocles on Etna." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, act 2.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Lord Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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Topic

Losing a loved one Aging Loneliness The human condition

Author

Lord Byron

Source

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1818 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1812-1818, canto 2, st. 98.

Current Citation

Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 2, st. 98.

As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!

Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls

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Topic

Growing up Emotions

Author

Nikolai Gogol

Source

Dead Souls

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Russian

Time

1842 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gogol, Nikolai. Мёртвые души [Dead Souls]. 1842, pt. 1, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Gogol, Nikolai. Dead Souls, translated Robert A. Maguire. Penguin Classics, 2004, pt. 1, ch. 6.

My point is rock and roll, by its very nature, leads to a breakdown in discipline.

Mr. Holland's Opus

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Topic

Rock music Authority figures

Speaker

Vice Principal Wolters

Actor

William H. Macy

Source

Mr. Holland's Opus

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Mr. Holland's Opus. Directed by Stephen Herek, Hollywood Pictures/Interscope Communications/PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, 1995.

But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect but it's real.

Before Midnight

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Topic

True love Nature of love Love

Speaker

Jesse

Actor

Ethan Hawke

Source

Before Midnight

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic drama (film) Drama (film) Romantic drama Drama

Language

English

Time

2013 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Before Midnight. Directed by Richard Linklater, Castle Rock Entertainment/Venture Forth/Detour Filmproduction, 2013.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Topic

Nature of progress

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Language

English

Time

1817 1810s 19th century

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Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Biographia Literaria, edited by Niger Leask. Vol. 1, London: J. M. Dent, 1817, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Biographia Literaria." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 1.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Thomas Carlyle

Sir Walter Scott

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Topic

Nature of life

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Source

Sir Walter Scott

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "Sir Walter Scott." London and Westminster Review, 12 Nov. 1838.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "Sir Walter Scott." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 29, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

What we call real estate—the solid ground to build a house on—is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of Seven Gables

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Topic

Property rights

Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Source

The House of Seven Gables

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851, ch. 17.

Current Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables, edited by Robert S. Levine. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, ch. 17.