There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.

Willa Cather

O Pioneers!

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Plus ça change Stories The human condition

Speaker

Carl (O Pioneers!)

Author

Willa Cather

Source

O Pioneers!

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 2, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.

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The Professor's House

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Limits of knowledge Inscrutability Connecting with others Intimacy

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Willa Cather
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The Professor's House
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
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Authentication Score 3
Citation

Cather, Willa. The Professor's House. Alfred A. Knopf, 1925, bk. 1, ch. 8.

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Railway termini... Are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

Howards End

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Trains Travel

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Howards End
Medium
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Language
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Time
1910 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Forster, E.M. Howards End. Edward Arnold, 1910, ch. 2.

Another quote about The human condition

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermere's Fan

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Topic
Stars The human condition
Speaker
Lord Darlington

Author

Oscar Wilde
Source
Lady Windermere's Fan
Medium
Play
Genre
Comedic play
Language
English
Time
1892 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman. 1892, St James's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "Lady Windermere's Fan." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 3.

Another quote from 1913

Once I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime flowers which my aunt used to give me... Immediately the old gray house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like the scenery of a theater.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Memory

Author

Marcel Proust
Source
Swann's Way In Search of Lost Time
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
French
Time
1913 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Du côté de chez Swann [The Way by Swann's]. Paris: Grasset, 1913.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2004.