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Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. Secker and Warburg, 1938, ch. 5.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer

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Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer. Obelisk Press, 1934.

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Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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Saint Jerome. Letter to Heliodorus." c. 396, sect. 19.

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Saint Jerome. "Letter LX." Select Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 19.

The world is what it is.

V.S. Naipaul

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Naipaul, V. S. A Bend in the River. Alfred A Knopf, 1979, pt. 1.

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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 17.

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Dickinson, Emily. We Never Know How High We Are. Poems by Emily Dickinson: Third Series. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896, I. 1.

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Dickinson, Emily. "We Never Know How High We Are." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

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Yeats, William Butler. "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz." The Winding Stair and Other Poems. The Macmillan Company, 1933, I. 24.

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Yeats, William Butler. "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 24.

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Burke, Edmund. Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. London: R and J. Dodsley, 1757, pt. 4, sect. 18.

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Burke, Edmund. "Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, pt. 4, sect. 18.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 19 Sept. 1777.

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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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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 5, ch. 3.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 5, ch. 3.

Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own reason! This is the motto of the Enlightenment.

Immanuel Kant

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"Sapere aude" is a Latin phrase meaning "dare to know."

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Kant, Immanuel. "Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung? [Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?]." Berlinische Monatsschrift, Dec. 1784.

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Kant, Immanuel. "An Answer to the Question: 'What is Enlightenment'?" Kant: Political Writings, edited by H. S. Reiss, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, 1991.

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Yeats, William Butler. Letter to Frederick J. Gregg. 1886.

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Yeats, William Butler. "To F. J. Gregg [late summer 1886]." The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats. Volume I: 1865-1895, edited by John Kelly. Oxford University Press, 1986.

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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. Carmina. c. 1481, no. 70, l. 3.

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Cattulus, Gaius Valerius. The Poems of Catullus, translated by Guy Lee. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 70, l. 3.

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Milton, John. The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. London: Matthew Simons, 1649.

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Milton, John. "The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Orwell, George. "The Sporting Spirit." Tribune (London), 14 Dec. 1945.

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Orwell, George. "The Sporting Spirit." The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 4: In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 1999, no. 12.

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Burke, Edmund. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. London: J. Dodsley, 1770.

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Burke, Edmund. "Thoughts on the Present Discontents." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Shakespeare, William. The Comedy of Errors. 1594, Gray's Inn Hall, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Comedy of Errors." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 2, ch. 8.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 2, ch. 8.

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Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead. Bobbs Merrill, 1943, pt. 4, ch. 18.