Man is a successful animal, that's all.

Remy de Gourmont

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Nature of man

Author

Remy de Gourmont

Language

French

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

De Gourmont, Remy. Promenades Philosophiques. c. 1905.

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He saw clearly how plain and simple—how narrow, even—it all was; but clearly, too, how much it all meant to him, and the special value of some such anchorage in one's existence. He did not at all want to abandon the new life and its splendid spaces, to turn his back on sun and air and all they offered him and creep home and stay there; the upper world was all too strong, it called to him still, even down there, and he knew he must return to the larger stage. But it was good to think he had this to come back to, this place which was all his own, these things which were so glad to see him again and could always be counted upon for the same simple welcome.

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Kenneth Grahame
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The Wind in the Willows
Medium
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Genre
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Language
English
Time
1908 1900s 20th century
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Original Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 5.

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 5.

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Of all the creatures that breathe and move across the earth, there is nothing feebler than man.

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The Odyssey
Medium
Poem
Genre
Epic poem
Language
Greek
Time
700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Homer. Ὀδύσσεια [Odyssey]. c. 710 BC, bk. 18, l. 130.

Current Citation

Homer. The Odyssey, edited by Bernard Knox, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2006, bk. 18, l. 130.

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Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of various qualities and advantages.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Sodom and Gomorrah In Search of Lost Time
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Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
French
Time
1921 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Sodom and Gomorrah. Paris: Grasset/Gallimard, 1921-1922.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. Sodom and Gomorrah, translated by John Sturrock. Penguin Classics, 2005.