Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Chaque fleur est une âme à la Nature éclose;

Gerard de Nerval

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Topic

Flowers

Author

Gerard de Nerval

Source

Golden Lines

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

Nerval, Gerard De. Vers Dores. c. 1843, l. 8.

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The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

William Lloyd Garrison

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Topic
American slavery
Speaker
William Lloyd Garrison
Medium
Speech
Language
English
Time
1843 1840s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Garrison, William Lloyd. Resolution passed by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society meeting. 27 Jan. 1843, Boston, MA, USA.

Another quote originally in French

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Simone Weil

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Topic
Nature of power

Author

Simone Weil
Language
French
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Weil, Simone. "L'iliade ou le poeme de la force [The Iliad, or The Poem of Force]." Les Cahiers du Sud, 1940.

Current Citation

Weil, Simone. "The Iliad, or The Poem of Force." Simone Weil: An Anthology, translated by Sian Miles. Grove Press, 2000.