You're on earth, there's no cure for that!

Samuel Beckett

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The human condition

Speaker

Hamm

Author

Samuel Beckett

Source

Endgame

Medium

Play

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

French

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Citation

Beckett, Samuel. Fin de partie. Directed by Roger Blin. Performed by Roger Blin, Jean Martin, Georges Adet, and Christine Tsingos. 3 Apr. 1957, Royal Court Theatre, London, England, UK.

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What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore -
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over -
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes

Harlem

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Topic
Broken dreams Dreams

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Langston Hughes
Source
Harlem
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Question
Language
English
Time
1951 1950s 20th century
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Citation

Hughes, Langston. "Harlem." Montage of a Dream Deferred. Holt, 1951.

Another quote about The human condition

Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

Jonathan Franzen

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Topic
The human condition Desire

Author

Jonathan Franzen
Source
Harper's Magazine
Medium
Essay
Language
English
Time
1996 1990s 20th century
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Original Citation

Franzen, Jonathan. "Perchance to Dream: In the Age of Images, a Reason to Write Novels." Harper's Magazine, Apr. 1996.

Current Citation

Franzen, Jonathan. "Why Bother?" How to Be Alone. Picador, 2002.

Another quote originally in French

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections

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Topic
Character flaws

Author

François de La Rochefoucauld
Source
Reflections
Medium
Epigram
Language
French
Time
1678 1670s 17th century
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Original Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

Current Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.