We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Happiness

Speaker

Morell

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Candida Plays Pleasant

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play) Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "Candida." 30 Mar. 1894, Theatre Royal, South Shields, London, England, UK, act 1.

Current Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. Candida. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 1.

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My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything.

Joseph Conrad

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Topic
Power of literature

Author

Joseph Conrad
Source
The Nigger of the Narcissus
Language
English
Time
1897 1890s 19th century
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Original Citation

Conrad, Joseph. The Nigger of the "Narcissus": A Tale of the Forecastle. Heinemann, 1897, preface.

Current Citation

Conrad, Joseph. "The Nigger of the '"Narcissus.'" The Secret Sharer and Other Stories. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, preface.

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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

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Topic
Self-knowledge Happiness

Author

Walter Benjamin
Source
One Way Street
Language
German
Time
1979 1970s 20th century
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Original Citation

Benjamin, Walter. Einbahnstraße [One Way Street]. Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1928.

Current Citation

Benjamin, Walter. One-Way Street, translated by Edmund Jephcott, edited by Michael W. Jennings. Belknap Press, 2016.