Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop

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Technological progress Technology Progress Modern life The human condition

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Eusabio

Author

Willa Cather

Source

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United States

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Citation

Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, bk. 9, ch. 6.

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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

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O Pioneers!

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Willa Cather
Source
O Pioneers!
Medium
Novel
Language
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Time
1913 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 1, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 1, ch. 5.

Another quote from the 1920s

The bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Existential solitude Connecting with others Isolation The human condition

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Marcel Proust
Source
The Fugitive In Search of Lost Time
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
French
Time
1922 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

Current Citation

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

Another quote about Progress

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Frederick Douglass

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Power relations Fighting for justice Political progress Politics Progress
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Frederick Douglass
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1857 1850s 19th century
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Citation

Douglass, Frederick. "West India Emancipation." 3 Aug. 1857, Canandaigua, NY, USA.