Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

Willa Cather

My Antonia

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Topic

Shared history

Author

Willa Cather

Source

My Antonia

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Closing lines

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Cather, Willa. My Antonia. Houghton Mifflin, 1918, bk. 5, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 5, ch. 3.

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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.

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Limits of knowledge Inscrutability Connecting with others Intimacy

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Source
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Medium
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Language
English
Time
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Citation

Cather, Willa. The Professor's House. Alfred A. Knopf, 1925, bk. 1, ch. 8.

Another quote from the 1910s

Who knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad.

Joseph Conrad

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Existential solitude Loneliness

Author

Joseph Conrad
Source
Under Western Eyes
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1911 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Harper & Brothers/Methuen Publishing, 1911, pt. 1, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Dover Publications, 2003, pt. 1, ch. 2.

Another quote from 1918

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Towne v. Eisner

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Meaning of words Words

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Source
Towne v. Eisner
Medium
Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion
Genre
Legal writing
Language
English
Time
1918 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Towne v. Eisner. United States Reports, vol. 245, 7 Jan. 1918, pp. 418-427. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/245/418/.