Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

Ah! que la vie est quotidienne.

Jules Laforgue

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Topic

Nature of life Spending time Passage of time Life

Author

Jules Laforgue

Source

Les Complaintes

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1885 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Uruguay South America

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Citation

Laforgue, Jules. "Complainte sur certains ennuis." Les Complaintes. Paris: Léon Vanier, 1885.

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East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.

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East vs. West Clash of civilizations Globalization

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Rudyard Kipling
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The Ballad of East and West
Medium
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Language
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Time
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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Ballad of East and West." Pioneer, 2 Dec. 1889.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Ballad of East and West." The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling. Wordsworth Editions, 1999.

Another quote about Life

Birth, and copulation, and death.
That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

T.S. Eliot

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Topic
Nature of life Life
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Sweeney

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T.S. Eliot
Source
Fragment of an Agon
Language
English
Time
1932 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Eliot, T. S. "Fragment of an Agon." Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama. Faber & Faber, 1932.

Another quote originally in French

Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The Physiology of Taste

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Alcohol

Author

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Source
The Physiology of Taste
Genre
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Language
French
Time
1825 1820s 19th century
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Original Citation

Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste [Physiologie du Goût]. Paris, 1825, meditation 9.

Current Citation

Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy, translated by M. F. K. Fisher. Vintage, 2011, meditation 9.