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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Graziella

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Topic

Selflessness Love Human nature

Author

Alphonse de Lamartine

Source

Graziella

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

De Lamartine, Alphonse. "Graziella." Les Confidences, 1849.

Current Citation

De Lamartine, Alphonse. Graziella, translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie. University of Minnesota Press, 2018, pt. 4, ch. 5.

The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the latter to actualize the former: and it is always discursive. The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Topic

The good Beauty

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Language

English

Time

1814 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "On the Principles of Genial Criticism Concerning the Fine Arts." Felix Farley's Bristol Journal. Bristol, Aug. and Sept. 1814.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Essays on the Principles of Genial Criticism." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 11, pt. 1: Shorter Works and Fragments, edited by Kathleen Coburn. Princeton University Press, 2019.

With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies!
How silently, and with how wan a face!

Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella

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Topic

The moon

Author

Philip Sidney

Source

Astrophel and Stella

Medium

Sonnet Poem

Language

English

Time

1591 1590s 16th century

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Original Citation

Sidney, Philip. Astrophel and Stella. London: Thomas Newman, 1591, sonnet 31.

Current Citation

Sidney, Philip. "Astrophil and Stella." Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones. Oxford University Press, 2009, sonnet 31.

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

Theodor Adorno

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Topic

Life under capitalism Capitalism

Author

Theodor Adorno

Source

The Meaning of Working Through the Past

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Adorno, Theodor. Was bedeutet Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit [The Meaning of Working Through the Past]. 1959.

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

Norman Rush

Mortals

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Topic

Literature

Author

Norman Rush

Source

Mortals

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rush, Norman. Mortals. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

The really important "great" things are never center stage of life's dramas; they're always "in the wings." That's why it's so essential for us to be mindful of the humble and the deep rather than the flashy and superficial.

Fred Rogers

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Topic

The little things Special moments Mindfulness The ordinary and mundane Big vs. small

Author

Fred Rogers

Source

The World According to Mister Rogers

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 144.

If they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai Stevenson

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Topic

Democrats and Republicans American politics

Speaker

Adlai Stevenson

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Stevenson, Adlai. Campaign statement. 10 Sept. 1952, Fresno, CA, USA.

Look for the silver lining
Whene'er a cloud
Appears in the blue.

Buddy DeSylva

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Topic

Silver linings Optimism

Author

Buddy DeSylva

Source

Look for the Silver Lining Sally

Medium

Song Musical

Genre

Great American songbook

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

DeSylva, Buddy. "Look for the Silver Lining." Sally. Composed by Jerome Kern. 1920, New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.

E.B. White

Quoted in Paris Review

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Topic

Children

Speaker

E.B. White

Source

Paris Review

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

White, E.B. "The Art of the Essay No. 1." Interviewed by George Plimpton and Frank H. Crowther. Paris Review, Fall 1969, www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4155/the-art-of-the-essay-no-1-e-b-white.

We spend 250 billion dollars a year on defense and here we are. The fate of the planet is in the hands of a bunch of retards I wouldn't trust with a potato gun.

Armageddon

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Topic

Fate of the world

Speaker

General Kimsey

Actor

Keith David

Source

Armageddon

Medium

Film

Genre

Disaster (film) Science fiction (film) Disaster Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Armageddon. Directed by Michael Bay, Touchstone Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films/Valhalla Motion Pictures, 1998.

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

Edward Thomas

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Topic

Idealizing the past The past

Author

Edward Thomas

Source

Early One Morning

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Thomas, Edward. "Early One Morning." Poems. Henry Holt/Selwyn & Blount, 1917, I. 15.

I lean toward the enchantment, the visual power, of the aesthetically rejected subject.

Walker Evans

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Topic

The wretched of the earth Observation Beauty

Speaker

Walker Evans

Source

Image Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1974 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Evans, Walker. Interviewed by Yale Alumni Magazine. 1974.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

A.J. Liebling

The Wayward Press

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Topic

Freedom of the press Media Power Politics Media criticism

Author

A.J. Liebling

Source

The Wayward Press

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Liebling, A. J. "The Wayward Press: Do You Belong in Journalism?" The New Yorker, 7 May 1960.

As your ambassador can see for himself we possess all things. I set no value on objects strange or ingenious, and have no use for your country's manufactures.

Qianlong Emperor

Writing to George III after the first British trade mission had reached Beijing.

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Topic

China Xenophobia

Author

Qianlong Emperor

Medium

Letter

Genre

Historical literature

Language

Chinese

Time

1793 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Qianlong. Letter to George III. 1783.

I preach that there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them there's only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Flannery O'Connor

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Topic

Nature of truth Truth

Speaker

Hazel Motes

Author

Flannery O'Connor

Source

Wise Blood

Medium

Novel

Genre

Southern Gothic

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

O'Connor, Flannery. Wise Blood. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1952, ch. 10.

The modern city is a place for banking and prostitution and very little else.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Topic

Cities

Speaker

Frank Lloyd Wright

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Wright, Frank Lloyd. Quoted in Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life and His Architecture, written by Robert C. Twombly. Harper & Row, 1973, ch. 9.

Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? And also—if this isn't too grand a word—our tragedy.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Topic

Character Personal growth The human condition

Author

Julian Barnes

Source

The Sense of an Ending

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

You know what I think? I think its from the time we leave our parents house until we have kids - that's the only time your life is completely your own. You know I think I had about a decade of that. It was great. It was just like one long, flowing... a day, a week, a year, there wasn't much difference.

Before Midnight

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Topic

Having children

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

Authentication Score 1

Citation

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

I long ago come to the conclusions that all life is 6 to 5 against.

Damon Runyon

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Topic

The human condition

Author

Damon Runyon

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Runyon, Alfred Damon. "A Nice Price." Money From Home. Frederick A. Stokes, 1935.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

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Topic

God and man Creativity Trees

Author

Joyce Kilmer

Source

Trees

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Kilmer, Joyce. "Trees." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 1913, I. 11.