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Truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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Topic

Warmth Cold Opposites Yin and yang

Author

Herman Melville

Source

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 11.

Current Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 11.

London is a modern Babylon.

Benjamin Disraeli

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London

Author

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Tancred: or, The New Crusade

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. Tancred: or, The New Crusade. Vol. 3, London: Henry Colburn, 1847, bk. 5, ch. 5.

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Topic

Love Melancholy

Author

Milan Kundera

Source

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Medium

Novel

Language

Czech

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

Current Citation

Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

We think time cannot touch the dead, but it touches their monuments, leaving them snub-nosed and stub-fingered from the accidents and attrition of time.

Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies

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Topic

Effects of time

Author

Hilary Mantel

Source

Bring Up the Bodies

Medium

Novel

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. Fourth Estate/Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

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Topic

Mediocrity

Author

Joseph Heller

Source

Catch-22

Medium

Novel

Genre

War novel

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Simon & Schuster, 1961, ch. 9.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo....

James Joyce

The Egoist

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James Joyce

Source

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Egoist

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Modernist literature

Statement Type

Opening lines

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man." The Egoist. 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915. Serial.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 1.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

Howards End

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Topic

Poverty Wealth Rich vs. poor

Author

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

Source

Howards End

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Forster, E.M. Howards End. Edward Arnold, 1910, ch. 5.

That's one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics.

John Updike

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Topic

Indifference to politics

Author

John Updike

Source

Rabbit Redux

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Updike, John. Rabbit Redux. Alfred A. Knopf, 1971, ch. 1.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan-spoiled.

Israel Zangwill

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Topic

Christianity Paganism

Speaker

Sidney

Author

Israel Zangwill

Source

Children of the Ghetto

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Zangwill, Israel. Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People. The Jewish Publication Society, 1892, bk. 2, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Zangwill, Israel. Children of the Ghetto. Wayne State University Press, 1998, bk. 2, ch. 6.

Prosperity brings with it an intoxication which inferior men are unable to resist.

Honoré de Balzac

La Comédie humaine

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Topic

Corrosive effects of wealth Downsides of wealth Wealth

Author

Honoré de Balzac

Source

César Birotteau La Comédie humaine

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

De Balzac, Honoré. César Birotteau. Paris: Charles-Béchet, 1837.

Current Citation

De Balzac, Honoré. César Birotteau. Penguin Classics, 1994.

Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

Jean de La Bruyere

The Characters

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Topic

Effects of time Love and friendship Friendship Love Time

Author

Jean de La Bruyere

Source

The Characters

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1688 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Bruyère, Jean de La. Les Caractères ou les Mœurs de ce siècle [The Characters or Manners of this Century]. Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1688, ch. 4, no. 4.

Current Citation

Bruyère, Jean de La. The Characters of Jean de la Bruyère, translated by Henri van Laun. Routledge, 1929, ch. 4, no. 4.

Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

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Topic

Running away Escape

Author

Sinclair Lewis

Source

Babbitt

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922, ch. 25.

Current Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt, edited by Gordon Hutner. Oxford University Press, 2010, ch. 25.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing-desire.

Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark

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Topic

Desire

Speaker

Wunsch

Author

Willa Cather

Source

The Song of the Lark

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915, pt. 1, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Vintage, 1999, pt. 1, ch. 9.

No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Graham Greene

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Topic

Existential solitude Empathy

Author

Graham Greene

Source

The Heart of the Matter

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. William Heinemann/The Viking Press, 1948, bk. 1, pt. 3, ch. 1, sec. 1.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage

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Topic

Changing one's mind Rigidity

Author

W. Somerset Maugham

Source

Of Human Bondage

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. George H. Doran Company, 1915, ch. 39.

Current Citation

Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Signet, 2007, ch. 39.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.

Roald Dahl

Quoted in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Topic

Books TV

Speaker

Oompa-Loompas

Author

Roald Dahl

Source

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad.

Laurence Sterne

Tristram Shandy

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Topic

One's native land Travel

Author

Laurence Sterne

Source

Tristram Shandy

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1765 1760s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Vol. 7, London: Becket & DeHondt, 1765, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, edited by Ian Campbell Ross. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 2.

The horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West

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Cormac McCarthy

Source

Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West

Medium

Novel

Genre

Western literature

Language

English

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

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Citation

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985, ch. 21.

He knew that the moment he allowed what his life meant to enter fully into his consciousness, he would either kill himself or someone else. So he denied himself and acted tough.

Richard Wright

Native Son

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Topic

Lying to oneself Pain

Author

Richard Wright

Source

Native Son

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Citation

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

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West

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Topic

Man and the universe

Author

Cormac McCarthy

Source

Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West

Medium

Novel

Genre

Western literature

Language

English

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985, ch. 14.