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Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

Arthur Schopenhauer

On Women

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Nature of women

Author

Arthur Schopenhauer

Source

On Women Parerga and Paralipomena

Language

German

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Ueber die Weiber [On Women]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 2, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

Current Citation

Schopenhauer, Arthur. "On Women." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Just as I am - without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bidst me come to Thee,
-O Lamb of God, I come!

Charlotte Elliott

Just as I Am

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God and man Forgiveness of sins

Author

Charlotte Elliott

Source

Just as I Am

Medium

Hymn Song

Language

English

Time

1834 1830s 20th century

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Citation

Elliott, Charlotte. "Just as I am." Christian Remembrancer, c. 1835.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Josephine Hart

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Topic

Suffering Adversity Survival

Speaker

Anna

Author

Josephine Hart

Source

Damage

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Hart, Josephine. Damage. Alfred A. Knopf/Chatto & Windus, 1991, ch. 12.

My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

William Sharp

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Existential solitude

Author

William Sharp

Source

The Lonely Hunter

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1896 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Sharp, William [published as Fiona McLeod]. "The Lonely Hunter." From the Hills of Dream. Edinburgh: Patrick Geddes & Colleagues, 1896.

He felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness—the sense that that is where we really belong.

Graham Greene

The Heart of the Matter

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Unhappiness Melancholy Depression

Author

Graham Greene

Source

The Heart of the Matter

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. William Heinemann/The Viking Press, 1948, bk. 2, pt. 2, sec. 1.

And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Dying for one's country Dying for one's religion

Author

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Source

Horatius Lays of Ancient Rome

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1842 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Horatius." Lays of Ancient Rome. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842, st. 27.

The Day in its hotness,
The strife with the palm;
The Night in its silence,
The Stars in their calm.

Matthew Arnold

Empedocles on Etna

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Night and day

Author

Matthew Arnold

Source

Empedocles on Etna

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1852 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "Empedocles on Etna." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, act 2.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Lord Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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Losing a loved one Aging Loneliness The human condition

Author

Lord Byron

Source

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1818 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1812-1818, canto 2, st. 98.

Current Citation

Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 2, st. 98.

As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!

Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls

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Topic

Growing up Emotions

Author

Nikolai Gogol

Source

Dead Souls

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Russian

Time

1842 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gogol, Nikolai. Мёртвые души [Dead Souls]. 1842, pt. 1, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Gogol, Nikolai. Dead Souls, translated Robert A. Maguire. Penguin Classics, 2004, pt. 1, ch. 6.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Nature of progress

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Language

English

Time

1817 1810s 19th century

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Biographia Literaria, edited by Niger Leask. Vol. 1, London: J. M. Dent, 1817, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Biographia Literaria." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 1.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Thomas Carlyle

Sir Walter Scott

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Topic

Nature of life

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Source

Sir Walter Scott

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "Sir Walter Scott." London and Westminster Review, 12 Nov. 1838.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "Sir Walter Scott." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 29, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

What we call real estate—the solid ground to build a house on—is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of Seven Gables

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Property rights

Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Source

The House of Seven Gables

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851, ch. 17.

Current Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables, edited by Robert S. Levine. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, ch. 17.

Puritanism—The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H.L. Mencken

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Puritanism

Author

H.L. Mencken

Source

Arcana Coelestia A Mencken Chrestomathy

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mencken, Henry Louis. "Arcana Coelestia." A Mencken Chrestomathy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1949, ch. 30.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Neil Postman

Amusing Ourselves to Death

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Topic

Downsides of technology

Author

Neil Postman

Source

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Language

English

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Viking Penguin/Methuen Publishing, 1985, foreword.

Musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Samuel Pepys

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Music

Author

Samuel Pepys

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1666 1660s 17th century

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Citation

Pepys, Samuel. Diary entry. 9 Mar. 1666.

To be like everyone else. Isn't that what we all want in the end?

Carol Shields

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Topic

Conformity Man as social animal

Author

Carol Shields

Source

Larry's Party

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Shields, Carol. Larry's Party. Knopf Canada, 1997, ch. 9.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought—a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

Mark Twain

The Mysterious Stranger

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Nature of reality The human condition

Author

Mark Twain

Source

The Mysterious Stranger

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

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Twain, Mark. The Mysterious Stranger. Harper & Brothers, 1916, ch. 11

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "The Mysterious Stranger." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age and Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002, ch. 11.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams

Mostly Harmless

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Topic

User experience Fools Design

Author

Douglas Adams

Source

Mostly Harmless

Medium

Novel

Genre

Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Adams, Douglas. Mostly Harmless. William Heinemann/Harmony Books, 1992, ch. 12.

We headed home holding hands. For a moment I dropped back to watch him walk. His sailor's gait always touched me. I knew one day I would stop and he would keep on going, but until then nothing could tear us apart.

Patti Smith

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Admiring another person Lost love Melancholy

Author

Patti Smith

Source

Just Kids

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

2010 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Smith, Patti. Just Kids. Ecco, 2010.

He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Alexander Pope

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Topic

Consequences of lying Lying Lies Liars

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

Thoughts on Various Subjects

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1727 1720s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Thoughts on Various Subjects." Swifts's Miscellanies. London, 1727, no. 31.