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

Willa Cather

O Pioneers!

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Nature of history History Nations

Author

Willa Cather

Source

O Pioneers!

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United States

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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.

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

Willa Cather

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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Medium
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Time
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Citation

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

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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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James Joyce
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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.

Another quote about History

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

The Life of Reason

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Topic
Learning from the past History The past

Author

George Santayana
Source
The Life of Reason
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
English
Time
1905 1900s 20th century
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Citation

Santayana, George. The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, edited by Marianne S. Wokeck and Martin A. Coleman. Vol. 7, The MIT Press, 2011, bk. 1, ch. 12. Originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905

Another quote from 1913

God at bottom is nothing but an exalted father.

Sigmund Freud

Totem and Taboo

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Sigmund Freud
Source
Totem and Taboo
Genre
Sociology
Language
German
Time
1913 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Totem und Tabu Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker [Totem and Taboo Some Similarities in the Soul Life of the Wild and the Neurotic]. Beacon Press, 1913, ch. 4, sect. 6. Originally published in Imago, c. 1912.