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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Elias Canetti

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Theory of dreams Dreams

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Elias Canetti

Source

The Human Province

Language

German

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

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Canetti, Elias. Die Provinz des Menschen: Aufzeichnungen 1942-1972. Hanser, 1973.

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Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.

Leonard Cohen

The Favourite Game

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Montreal Canada

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Leonard Cohen

Source

The Favourite Game

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Cohen, Leonard. The Favourite Game. Secker and Warburg, 1963, bk. 2, ch. 19.

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I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do-and I have done it-and God forgives me for it.

Jimmy Carter

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Lust

Author

Jimmy Carter

Source

Playboy Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Carter, Jimmy. "The Playboy Interview with Jimmy Carter." Interviewed by Robert Scheer. Playboy Magazine, 1 Nov. 1976.

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Faint heart never won fair lady!
Nothing venture, nothing win-
Blood is thick, but water's thin-
In for a penny, in for a pound-
It's Love that makes the world go round!

W.S. Gilbert

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Shoot your shot Courage Love

Author

W.S. Gilbert

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Iolanthe

Medium

Opera

Genre

Comedy

Language

English

Time

1882 1880s 19th century

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Gilbert, William Schwenck. Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri. Composed by Arthur Sullivan. 1882, Savoy Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2.

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Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.

Sir Thomas Browne

Hydriotaphia

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Time as destroyer Effects of time

Author

Sir Thomas Browne

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Hydriotaphia

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English

Time

1658 1650s 17th century

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk." Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk Together with the Garden of Cyrus. London: Henry Brome, 1658, ch. 5.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Hydriotaphia or Urne Buriall (1658)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, ch. 5.

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So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Helping others Man as social animal

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Paper

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1872 1870s 19th century

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Lay Morals. c. 1872.

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They cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.

Edward Coke

On corporations.

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Corporations Legal theory Law

Author

Edward Coke

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The Case of Sutton's Hospital

Language

English

Time

1658 1650s 17th century

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Coke, Edward. Case of Sutton's Hospital, 10 Rep 32; 77 Eng Rep 960, 973, KB 1612.

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Loveliest of lovely things are they,
On earth, that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

William Cullen Bryant

A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson

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The ephemeral

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William Cullen Bryant

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A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1828 1820s 19th century

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Bryant, William Cullen. "A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson." Poems. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839, st. 3.

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Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Edwin Hubble

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The Exploration of Space

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Man and the universe Science

Author

Edwin Hubble

Source

The Exploration of Space Harper’s Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

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Hubble, Edwin. “The Exploration of Space.” Harper’s Magazine, May 1929.

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When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.

Isaac Watts

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

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Salvation

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Isaac Watts

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When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

Medium

Hymn Song

Language

English

Time

1707 1700s 18th century

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Watts, Isaac. "Crucifixion to the World, by the Cross of Christ." Hymns and Spiritual Songs. 1707, I. 1.

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The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West

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The world

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Cormac McCarthy

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Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West

Medium

Novel

Genre

Western literature

Language

English

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

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McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985, ch. 17.

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You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself!

Jean Anouilh

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Nature of love Selflessness Love

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Countess

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Jean Anouilh

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Ardèle ou la Marguerite

Medium

Play

Language

French

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

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Anouilh, Jean. Ardèle ou la Marguerite. Directed by Roland Piétri. 1948, Comédie des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France.

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Anouilh, Jean. "Ardele." Jean Anouilh: Five Plays. Vol. 2, Hill & Wang, 1966.

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Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow.

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer

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Formation of character

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J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

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Letters from an American Farmer

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Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1782 1780s 18th century

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Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean [published as J. Hector St. John]. "What Is an American?" Letters from an American Farmer. London: Davies & Davies, 1782.

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Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John. "Letters From an American Farmer." Letters From an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America, edited by Albert E. Stone. Penguin Classics, 1981.

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People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

Carl Jung

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Facing oneself Existential terror Self-knowledge Distraction Human nature

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Carl Jung

Source

Psychology and Alchemy

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

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Jung, Carl. Psychologie un Alchemie [Psychology and Alchemy] Routledge, 1944.

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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Miller

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Purpose of life

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Henry Miller

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English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Miller, Henry. "Creative Death." The Wisdom of the Heart. New Directions Books, 1941.

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What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Flings

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

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What Lips My Lips Have Kissed

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

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Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed." The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems. Harper & Brothers, 1923, I. 1.

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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Relationships Solitude Independence

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Paula Modersohn-Becker. 12 Feb. 1902.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, translated by Jane B. Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

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Err in the direction of kindness.

George Saunders

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Kindness

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George Saunders

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2013 Syracuse commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Language

English

Time

2013 2010s 21st century

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Saunders, George. Convocation speech for the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University. 11 May 2013, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.

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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Miguel de Unamuno

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Science

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Miguel de Unamuno

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The Tragic Sense of Life

Medium

Essay

Language

Spanish

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

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De Unamuno, Miguel. Del Sentimiento Tragico de la Vida [The Tragic Sense of Life]. Sociedad anónima Editorial, 1913, ch. 5.

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Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.

Samuel Johnson

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War and truth War

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Samuel Johnson

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The Idler

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1758 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Johnson, Samuel. "Idler." Universal Chronicle, 11 Nov. 1758, no. 30.

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