In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

Autrefois on rêvait de posséder le cœur de la femme dont on était amoureux; plus tard sentir qu’on possède le cœur d’une femme peut suffire à vous en rendre amoureux.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Topic

Men and women Relationships

Author

Marcel Proust

Source

Swann's Way In Search of Lost Time

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

French

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Du côté de chez Swann [The Way by Swann's]. Paris: Grasset, 1913.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2004.

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In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.

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The Autobiography of Mark Twain

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Original Citation

Twain, Mark. The Autobiography of Mark Twain. Harper & Row, 1959, ch. 78.

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Twain, Mark. Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael Barry Frank, Amanda Gagel, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick, and Christopher M. Ohge. Vol. 3, University of California Press, 2015, ch. 78.

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Relationships: easy to get into, hard to maintain. Why are they so hard to maintain? Cause it’s hard to keep up the lie. 'Cause you can't get nobody being you. You got to lie to get somebody. You can't get nobody lookin' like you look, actin' like you act, soundin' like you sound. That's right, when you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative!

Chris Rock

Bigger & Blacker

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Chris Rock
Source
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Medium
Comedy special
Genre
Comedy (stand up)
Statement Type
Joke
Language
English
Time
1999 1990s 20th century
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Rock, Chris. Bigger & Blacker. HBO, 10 July 1999.

Another quote from 1913

To be born is to be wrecked on an island.

J.M. Barrie

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The human condition

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J.M. Barrie
Source
The Coral Island
Language
English
Time
1913 1910s 20th century
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Barrie, J. M. Quoted in The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, by R. M. Ballantyne. James Nisbet and Co., 1913, preface.

Another quote originally in French

I bend but do not break.

Jean de la Fontaine

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Resilience

Author

Jean de la Fontaine
Source
The Oak and the Reed Fables (de la Fontaine)
Medium
Fable and fairytale
Language
French
Time
1668 1660s 17th century
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Original Citation

La Fontaine, Jean. "Le chene et le roseau [The Oak and the Reed]." Fables. Paris, 1668, bk. 1, no. 22.

Current Citation

La Fontaine, Jean. "The Oak and the Reed." The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro. University of Illinois Press, 2007, bk. 1, no. 22.