It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage

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Happiness

Author

W. Somerset Maugham

Source

Of Human Bondage

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. George H. Doran Company, 1915, ch. 122.

Current Citation

Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Signet, 2007, ch. 122.

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Truth is the first casualty in war.

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Ethel Snowden
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Snowden, Ethel. "Women and War." Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Education Association. 1915.

Another quote about Happiness

Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.

William Blake

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The human condition Wisdom Happiness Sadness

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William Blake
Source
Poems from the Pickering Manuscript
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1805 1800s 19th century
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Original Citation

Blake, William. "Auguries of Innocence." Songs of Innocence and Experience, with Other Poems. London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1866.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "Auguries of Innocence." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Another quote from 1915

I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Desire Hope

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James Joyce
Source
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." The Egoist, 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by Seamus Deane. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 5.