Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Le sort fait les parens, le choix fait les amis.

Jacques Delille

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Topic

Friends and family Friends Family

Author

Jacques Delille

Source

Malheur Et Pitié

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1803 1800s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

Delille, Jacques. La Pitié, poeme en quatre chants. Brunswick: F. Vieweg, c. 1804, canto 1.

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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

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Medium
Film
Genre
Crime (film) Epic (film) Crime Epic
Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
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Citation

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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Marcel Proust

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Topic
Healing Suffering

Author

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Source
The Fugitive In Search of Lost Time
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
French
Time
1922 1920s 20th century
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Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

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Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.