What is Love?... It is the morning and the evening star.

Sinclair Lewis

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Topic

Nature of love Love

Author

Sinclair Lewis

Source

Elmer Gantry

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satire

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Nobel laureate Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1927, ch. 20.

Current Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Signet, 2007, ch. 20.

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Medium
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Time
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This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

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Topic
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Source
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Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
1883 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

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Happiness is the deferred fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth brings so little happiness; money is not an infantile wish.

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Author

Sigmund Freud
Medium
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
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Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Wilhelm Fliess. 16 Jan. 1898.

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Freud, Sigmund. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904, translated and edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Harvard University Press, 1985.