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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart!
What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of Seven Gables

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Topic

Existential solitude Inner life Self-criticism

Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Source

The House of Seven Gables

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851, ch. 11.

Current Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables, edited by Robert S. Levine. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, ch. 11.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Topic

Beauty Gardens Disenchanted world

Author

Douglas Adams

Source

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Medium

Novel

Genre

Science fiction

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979, ch. 16.

The majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France

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Rule of law Law The poor Economic inequality

Speaker

Choulette

Author

Anatole France

Source

The Red Lily

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Irony

Language

French

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

France, Anatole. Le Lys Rouge [The Red Lily]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1894, ch. 7.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”

Douglas Adams

The Salmon of Doubt

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Topic

School of hard knocks Learning from mistakes Learning Life lessons

Author

Douglas Adams

Source

The Salmon of Doubt

Medium

Novel

Genre

Science fiction

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Adams, Douglas. "Interview: Douglas Adams." Interviewed by Brendan Buhler. Artsweek. University of California Santa Barbara Daily Nexus, 5 Apr. 2001.

Current Citation

Adams, Douglas. The Salmon of Doubt. William Heinemann Ltd./Pocket Books, 2002, ch. 11.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

G.K. Chesterton

The Man who was Thursday: A Nightmare

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Topic

Rich vs. poor The rich The poor

Speaker

Ratcliffe

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

The Man who was Thursday: A Nightmare

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Chesterton, G.K. "The Man Who Was Thursday." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Ignatius Press, 1991. Originally published by J.W. Arrowsmith, 1904.

Love is two people mutually feeding each other, not one living on the soul of the other like a ghoul.

Bessie Head

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Topic

Nature of love Love

Speaker

Sello

Author

Bessie Head

Source

A Question of Power

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Head, Bessie. A Question of Power. Davis-Poynter, 1973, pt. 1.

At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.

H.G. Wells

The War of the Worlds

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Topic

Alienation from oneself Alienation

Author

H.G. Wells

Source

The War of the Worlds

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wells, H. G. "The War of the Worlds." Pearson's Magazine/Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1897.

Current Citation

Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds. Signet, 2007, ch. 7.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

The Way of All Flesh

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Topic

Man and animals Purpose of life Life

Author

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

Source

The Way of All Flesh

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Grant Richards, 1903, ch. 19.

Current Citation

Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Everyman's Library, 1993, ch. 19.

All women are stimulated by the news that any wife has left any husband.

Anthony Powell

The Acceptance World

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Topic

Gossip

Author

Anthony Powell

Source

The Acceptance World A Dance to the Music of Time

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Powell, Anthony. A Dance to the Music of Time: The Acceptance World. Vol. 3, London: Heinemann, 1955, ch. 4.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Erica Jong

Fear of Flying

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Topic

Marriage

Author

Erica Jong

Source

Fear of Flying

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Joke

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Anonymous woman quoted in Fear of Flying, written by Erica Jong. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Amelia E. Barr

The Belle of Bowling Green

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Topic

Nature of love Love

Author

Amelia E. Barr

Source

The Belle of Bowling Green

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Barr, Amelia E. The Belle of Bowling Green. Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1904.

Goddammit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like living in jail.

Richard Wright

Native Son

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Topic

Black experience Race relations

Speaker

Bigger Thomas

Author

Richard Wright

Source

Native Son

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 1.

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Stella Benson

This is the End

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Topic

Enemies Strangers

Author

Stella Benson

Source

This is the End

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Benson, Stella. This is the End. Macmillian, 1917.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Boris Pasternak

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Topic

Living in the moment Being present

Speaker

Yuri Andreievich Zhivago

Author

Boris Pasternak

Source

Doctor Zhivago (novel)

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Pasternak, Boris. До́ктор Жива́го [Dr. Zhivago]. Feltrinelli, 1957, pt. 2, ch. 9, sect. 14.

Current Citation

Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Vintage International, 2011, pt. 2, ch. 9, sect. 14.

It is hard for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Thomas Hardy

Far From the Madding Crowd

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Topic

Women Gender relations Patriarchy Men and women

Speaker

Bathsheba Troy

Author

Thomas Hardy

Source

Far From the Madding Crowd

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1874 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Hardy, Thomas [published anonymously]. "Far From the Madding Crowd." Cornhill Magazine, 1874.

Current Citation

Hardy, Thomas. Far from the Madding Crowd, edited by Rosemarie Morgan. Penguin Classics, 2015.

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

D.H. Lawrence

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Topic

Nature Grass Rabbits

Speaker

Rupert Birkin

Author

D.H. Lawrence

Source

Women in Love

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lawrence, D.H. Women in Love. Thomas Seltzer, 1920, ch. 11.

What can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished? The hard reality is, surely, that for the likes of you and I, there is little choice other than to leave our fate, ultimately, in the hands of those great gentlemen at the hub of this world who employ our services. What is the point in worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one’s life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that is in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

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Topic

Dwelling on the past Regrets The past

Author

Kazuo Ishiguro

Source

The Remains of the Day

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. Faber & Faber, 1989.

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Topic

Vacation Time off Taking it easy

Author

Kenneth Grahame

Source

The Wind in the Willows

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 1.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'tis the only thing in this world that lasts...'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for—worth dying for.

Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind

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Topic

Land Property rights

Author

Margaret Mitchell

Source

Gone with the Wind

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Macmillan Publishers, 1936, pt. 1, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Scribner, 2007, pt. 1, ch. 2.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Angela Carter

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Topic

Comedy Tragedy

Author

Angela Carter

Source

Wise Children

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Carter, Angela. Wise Children. Chatto & Windus, 1991, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Carter, Angela. Wise Children. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, ch. 5.