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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Christopher Marlowe

The Jew of Malta

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Topic

Religion

Speaker

Machiavel

Author

Christopher Marlowe

Source

The Jew of Malta

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1593 1590s 16th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Marlowe, Christopher. The Jew of Malta. London, c. 1633, prologue.

Current Citation

Marlowe, Christopher. "The Jew of Malta." Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays. Penguin Classics, 2004, prologue.

Between good sense and good taste there is the same difference as between cause and effect.

Jean de La Bruyere

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Topic

Good taste Taste

Author

Jean de La Bruyere

Source

The Characters, or The Manners of the Age

Language

French

Time

1688 1680s 17th century

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Citation

De La Bruyere, Jean. "Des jugements [Of Judgement]." Les Caracteres ou Les Moeurs de Ce Siecle [The Characters or The Manners of the Age]. Paris: Chez Estienne Michallet, 1688.

The whole human memory can be, and probably in a short time will be, made accessible to every individual.

H.G. Wells

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Topic

The internet Man and machine Technological progress

Author

H.G. Wells

Source

Harper's Magazine

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wells, H. G. "The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia." Harper's Magazine, Apr. 1937.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Rebecca West

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Topic

Artist and audience Art

Author

Rebecca West

Source

The Court and the Castle

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Citation

West, Rebecca. The Court and the Castle. Yale University Press, 1957.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

François-Rene de Chateaubriand

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Topic

Originality Writers

Author

François-Rene de Chateaubriand

Source

The Genius of Christianity

Genre

Religious literature

Language

French

Time

1802 1800s 19th century

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Citation

De Chateaubriand, Francois Rene. Genie du christianisme [The Genius of Christianity]. Paris: Chez Migneret, 1802, pt. 2, bk. 1, ch. 3.

I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Julian Barnes

Source

The Sense of an Ending

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

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

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Charles Peguy

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Topic

Tyranny Threats to freedom

Author

Charles Peguy

Source

Basic Verities

Medium

Epigram

Language

French

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Peguy, Charles. Basic Verities: Prose and Poetry, translated by Ann and Julian Green. Pantheon Books, 1943.

Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

John Galsworthy

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Topic

Public opinion Law and culture Legal theory Law

Speaker

Mr. March

Author

John Galsworthy

Source

Windows

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Galsworthy, John. Windows. 1922, Royal Court Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Fernando Pessoa

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Topic

Literature

Author

Fernando Pessoa

Source

The Book of Disquiet

Language

Portuguese

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Pessoa, Fernando (published as Bernardo Soares). Livro do Desassossego [The Book of Disquiet]. Attica, 1982.

That great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

John Viscount Morley

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Topic

How to live The human condition

Speaker

John Viscount Morley

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Morley, John. "Aphorisms." 11 Nov. 1887, The Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh, Scotland. Address.

My days have been so wondrous free,
The little birds that fly
With careless ease from tree to tree,
Were but bless'd as I.

Thomas Parnell

My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free

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Topic

Being carefree

Author

Thomas Parnell

Source

My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free

Medium

Song

Language

English

Time

1714 1710s 18th century

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Citation

Parnell, Thomas. "Song." Poetical Miscellanies, Consisting of Original Poems and Translations. London: Jacob Tonson, 1714.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.

Richard Whately

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Topic

Honesty

Author

Richard Whately

Medium

Epigram

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1854 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Whately, Richard. Thoughts and Apophthegms. London: Blackader and Company, 1854, ch. 18.

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

Hermann Hesse

Demian

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Topic

Being true to oneself Authenticity

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

Demian

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

German

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

Current Citation

Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Hermann Hesse

Demian

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Topic

Self-hatred Hate

Speaker

Pistorius

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

Demian

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

German

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

Current Citation

Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide.

Ramsay MacDonald

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Topic

Nature of war War

Author

Ramsay MacDonald

Source

Observer

Medium

Newspaper

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

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Citation

MacDonald, Ramsay. Observer. 4 May 1930.

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

Herbert Spencer

The Principles of Biology

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Topic

Predator and prey

Author

Herbert Spencer

Source

The Principles of Biology

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Spencer, Herbert. The Principles of Biology. Vol. 1, London: Williams and Norgate, 1864, pt. 3, ch. 2.

I was walking along the road with two friends.
The sun was setting.
I felt a breath of melancholy-Suddenly the sky turned blood-red.
I stopped, and leaned against the railing, deathly tired-
looking out across the flaming clouds that hung like blood and a sword over the blue-black fjord and town.
My friends walked on-I stood there, trembling with fear.
And I sensed a great, infinite scream pass through nature.

Edvard Munch

Describing the experience that led him to paint "The Scream".

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Author

Edvard Munch

Medium

Personal journal

Statement Type

Vision

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Munch, Edvard. Diary entry. 22 Jan. 1892.

Becoming a father isn't difficult,
But it's very difficult to be a father.

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Topic

Fatherhood Parenting

Author

Wilhelm Busch

Source

Julchen

Medium

Poem

Language

German

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Busch, Wilhelm. Julchen. Munich: Bassermann, 1877.

How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.

Malcolm Lowry

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Topic

Sex

Author

Malcolm Lowry

Source

Under the Volcano

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1947 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lowry, Malcolm. Under the Volcano. Reynal & Hitchcock/Jonathan Cape, 1947, ch. 12.

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The World as Will and Idea

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Topic

Truth

Author

Arthur Schopenhauer

Source

The World as Will and Idea

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1818 1810s 19th century

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Original Citation

Schopenhauer, Arthur. Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung [The World as Will and Imagination]. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1819, preface.

Current Citation

Schopenhauer, Arthur. The World as Will and Representation, edited by Christopher Janaway, translated by Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman. Cambridge University Press, 2014, preface.