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Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

Émile Zola

On the Dreyfus affair.

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Zola, Emile. "J'Accuse…!" L'Aurore, 13 Jan. 1898.

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Zola, Emile. "J'Accuse...!" The Dreyfus Affair: 'J'Accuse' and Other Writings, edited by Alain Pagès, translated by Eleanor Levieux. Yale University Press, 1998.

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Lord Byron. Don Juan. London: John Murray, 1821, canto 3, st. 3.

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Lord Byron. "Don Juan." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 3, st. 3.

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Mill, John Stuart. "Utilitarianism." Fraser's Magazine, 1861, ch. 2.

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Mill, John Stuart. "Utilitarianism." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.

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Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London. Victor Gollancz, 1933, ch. 3.

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Horace. Ars Poetica [The Art of Poetry]. c. 19 BC, l. 47.

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Horace. "Ars Poetica." Satires, Epistles, Ars Poetica, translated by H. R. Fairclough. Harvard University Press, 1929, l. 47.

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Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray, 1871, pt. 3, ch. 21.

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Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man. Penguin Classics, 2004, pt. 3, ch. 21.

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Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831, introduction.

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Shelley, Mary. "Introduction to Frankenstein, Third Edition (1831)." Frankenstein: The 1818 Text. Penguin Classics, 2018.

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Heraclitus. Fragments. 5th century BC, DK B54.

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Heraclitus. Fragments, translated by Brooks Haxton. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." Fortnightly Review. London: Chapman and Hall, Feb. 1891.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose, edited by Linda Dowling. Penguin Classics, 2001.

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Seneca the Younger. Ad Polybium De Consolatione [Of Consolation, To Polybius]. c. 44 AD, ch. 6, sect. 5.

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Da Vinci, Leonardo. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. c. 1519.

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Aristophanes. Λυσιστράτη [Lysistrata]. c. 411 BC, Athens, Greece.

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Aristophanes. "Lysistrata." Lysistrata and Other Plays. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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Voltaire. Letter to Jean le Rond d'Alembert. 8 Feb. 1776.

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Nightingale, Florence. Letter to Miss H. Bonham Carter. 1861.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 15 Apr. 1778.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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Dickens, Charles. "Our Mutual Friend." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, Mar. 1865, pt. 11, bk. 3, ch. 2.

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Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend, edited by Adrian Poole. Penguin, 1998, bk. 3, ch. 2.

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Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. Secker and Warburg, 1938, ch. 4.

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De Beauvoir, Simone. La force de l'âge [The Prime of Life]. Gallimard, 1960.

Get off of my cloud.

The Rolling Stones

Get Off of My Cloud

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Jagger, Mick and Keith Richards. Get Off of My Cloud. Performed by the Rolling Stones. London Recordings/Decca Records, 1965.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 21 Aug. 1773.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides." A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, edited by Jack Lynch and Celia Barnes. Oxford University Press, 2021.