God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Paul Valéry

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Men and women

Author

Paul Valéry

Medium

Essay

Language

French

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Writer

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France Europe

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Citation

Valery, Paul. Moralites. Librairie Gallimard, 1932.

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A lie keeps growing and growing, until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

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Why are women…so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

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Genre
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Time
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Original Citation

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 2.

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Another quote from 1941

The stuff that dreams are made of.

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Film
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Time
1941 1940s 20th century
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The Maltese Falcon. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros., 1941.

Another quote originally in French

I think, therefore I am.

René Descartes

Discourse on Method

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René Descartes
Source
Discourse on Method
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
French
Time
1637 1630s 17th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
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Descartes, René [published anonymously]. Discours de la Méthode: Pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences [Discourse on Method: To Conduct Reason Well, and Seek Truth in the Sciences]. Leiden, 1637, pt. 4.

Current Citation

Descartes, René. Discourse on the Method, translated by Ian Maclean. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 4.