Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

La vie est une fleur, l'amour en est le miel.

Victor Hugo

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Topic

Love and life Love Life

Speaker

Le Roi, Francis I, king of France

Author

Victor Hugo

Source

Le Roi S'amuse

Medium

Play

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

French

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Poet Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Hugo, Victor. Le roi s'amuse [The King Amuses Himself]. 22 Nov. 1832, La Comédie Française, Paris, France, act 2, sc. 4.

Current Citation

Hugo, Victor. "The King Amuses Himself." Three Plays by Victor Hugo, translated by Camilla Crosland and Frederick L. Slous. Washington Square Press, 1964.

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Men are what their mothers made them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate

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Topic
Mothers and sons Formation of character

Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source
Fate The Conduct of Life
Medium
Essay
Language
English
Time
1860 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Fate." The Conduct of Life. Boston: Ticknor & Fields/London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Fate." The Conduct of Life, edited by Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, and Douglas Emory Wilson. Vol. 6, Belknap Press, 2004.

Another quote about Life

They lived und laughed ant loved end left.

James Joyce

Finnegans Wake

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Topic
Looking back Life
Speaker
Jute

Author

James Joyce
Source
Finnegans Wake
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Statement Type
Epitaph
Language
English
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Faber and Faber, 1939.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Wordsworth, 2012.

Another quote from 1862

It is not the prize that can make us happy; it is not even the winning of the prize....[It is] the struggle, the long hot hour of the honest fight.... There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Anthony Trollope

Orley Farm

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Topic
Benefits of adversity Adversity Hard work

Author

Anthony Trollope
Source
Orley Farm
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1862 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Trollope, Anthony. Orley Farm. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861-1862.

Another quote originally in French

Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us die.

Albert Camus

The Sea Close By

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Topic
Acceptance of death Death The human condition

Author

Albert Camus
Source
The Sea Close By
Medium
Essay
Language
French
Time
1953 1950s 20th century
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Citation

Camus, Albert. "The Sea Close By." Lyrical and Critical Essays. Vintage Books, 1970. Originally published in L'Eté [Summer]. Gallimard, 1954.

Another quote of the following type Metaphor, analogy and simile

His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

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Topic
Justifications and rationales Nonsense and bullshit
Speaker
Bassanio

Author

William Shakespeare
Source
The Merchant of Venice
Medium
Play
Genre
Comedy (play)
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1598 1590s 16th century
Era
European Renaissance
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. c. 1598, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Merchant of Venice." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 1.