Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on a Road

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Topic

Nature of love Power of love Love

Author

Zora Neale Hurston

Source

Dust Tracks on a Road

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Black writer Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942, ch. 14.

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Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our table.

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W.H. Auden
Source
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Time
1940 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Auden, W. H. "Herman Melville." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940.

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Sextus Propertius

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Topic
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Sextus Propertius
Source
Elegies
Medium
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Language
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Time
24 BC 20s BC 1st century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Sextus Propertius. Elegies. c. 24 BC, bk. 2.

Current Citation

Sextus Propertius. Elegies, edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Harvard University Press, 1990, bk. 2.

Another quote from 1942

The last time I see Paris will be on the day I die. The city was inexhaustible, and so is its memory.

Elliot Paul

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Paris

Author

Elliot Paul
Source
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Genre
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Language
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Time
1942 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Paul, Elliot. The Last Time I Saw Paris. ‎Random House, 1942, pt. 2, ch. 23.