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Jerome, Jerome K. "The Idler's Club." The Idler. London: Chatto & Windus, Feb. 1892.

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Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899, ch. 6.

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Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening." The Awakening and Selected Stories. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 6.

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Muir, John. Journal entry. 18 July 1890.

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Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899, ch. 39.

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Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening." The Awakening and Selected Stories. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 39.

A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."

Stephen Crane

A Man Said to the Universe

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Crane, Stephen. "A Man Said to the Universe." War is Kind and Other Lines. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1899, I. 1.

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Crane, Stephen. "A Man Said to the Universe." War is Kind and Other Lines. Dover Publications, 2016, I. 1.

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James, William. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 1, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890, ch. 13.

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Morris, William. "How I Became a Socialist." Justice, 16 June 1894.

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Morris, William. How I Became a Socialist, edited by Owen Hatherley. Verso, 2020.

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Turner, Frederick Jackson. "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." American Historical Association meeting. 1893, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Gompers, Samuel. "Trade Unions - Their Philosophy." Jan. 1898, USA. Speech.

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Gompers, Samuel. Quoted in The State and the Unions, written by Christopher Tomlins. Cambridge University Press, 1985, ch. 3.

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Mallarme, Stephane. Quoted in "Sur l'Evolution Litteraire [On Literary Evolution]." Enquete de Huret [Investigation by Jules Huret]. Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1891.

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Twain, Mark. Letter to Olivia Clemens. 19 Apr. 1894.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Der Antichrist [The Antichrist]. 1895, no. 23.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. "The Anti-Christ." The Twilight of the Idols and Anti-Christ, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 1990, no. 23.

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Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Wilhelm Fliess. 16 Jan. 1898.

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Freud, Sigmund. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904, translated and edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Harvard University Press, 1985.

It is cocaine...a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of Four

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Doyle, Arthur. "The Sign of the Four; or, The Problem of the Sholtos." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. London: Lippincott's, 1890, ch. 1.

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Doyle, Arthur. The Sign of Four. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2009, ch. 1.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist." Intentions. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1891, pt. 2.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist Part II." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Letter to E. C. Chapman. 29 July 1891.

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Hardy, Thomas. "Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented." The Graphic, July–Dec. 1891.

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Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, edited by Scott Elledge. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "The Path of the Law." Address to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at the dedication of the new hall of the Boston University School of Law. 8 Jan. 1897, Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA, USA.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "The Path of the Law." The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, edited by Richard A. Posner. University of Chicago Press, 1997.

You see, but you do not observe.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Scandal in Bohemia

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Scandal in Bohemia." The Strand Magazine. London: July 1891.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Scandal in Bohemia." The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2010.

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Conrad, Joseph. "Heart of Darkness." Blackwood's Magazine. London and Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, Feb. 1899 - Apr. 1899.

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Conrad, Joseph. "Heart of Darkness." Heart of Darkness and Other Tales, edited by Cedric Watts. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 1.