In the desert there is all-and yet nothing…God is there and man is not.

Honoré de Balzac

La Comédie humaine

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The desert

Author

Honoré de Balzac

Source

A Passion in the Desert La Comédie humaine

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1830 1820s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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France Europe

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Citation

De Balzac, Honoré. "Une passion dans le desert [A Passion in the Desert]." Revue de Paris, 26 Dec. 1830.

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There is a silence where hath been no sound,
There is a silence where no sound may be,
In the cold grave-under the deep, deep sea.

Thomas Hood

Silence

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Thomas Hood
Source
Silence
Medium
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Language
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Time
1827 1820s 19th century
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Original Citation

Hood, Thomas. "Silence." The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1827.

Current Citation

Hood, Thomas. "Silence." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

Another quote originally in French

The love of wealth is therefore to be traced, as either a principal or accessory motive, at the bottom of all that the Americans do; this gives to all their passions a sort of family likeness.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America

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Love of money American character America

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Alexis de Tocqueville
Source
Democracy in America
Genre
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Language
French
Time
1840 1840s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 2, London: Saunders and Otley, 1840, bk. 3. ch. 17.

Current Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 2, bk. 3. ch. 17.