We cannot tear out a single page of life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu

George Sand

Mauprut

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Topic

Suicide

Author

George Sand

Source

Mauprut

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

French

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

Sand, George. "Mauprat." Revue des deu Monds, Apr.-June 1837. Serial.

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Come out of your warm, angular house, resounding with few voices, into the chill, grand, instantaneous night, with such a Presence as a full moon in the clouds.

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Topic
Experiencing nature Man and nature Civilization and nature

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source
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Medium
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Language
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Time
1838 1830s 19th century
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Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journal entry. 11 May 1838.

Another quote originally in French

The most decisive actions of our life-I mean those that our most likely to decide the whole course of our future-are more often than not, unconsidered.

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Topic
Inflection points
Speaker
Hildebrant

Author

Andre Gide
Source
The Counterfeiters
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
French
Time
1926 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 3, ch. 16.

Current Citation

Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 3, ch. 16.

Another quote of the following type Metaphor, analogy and simile

The ego's relation to the id might be compared with that of a rider to his horse. The horse supplies the locomotive energy, while the rider has the privilege of deciding on the goal and of guiding and powerful animal's movement. But only too often there arises between the ego and the id the not precisely ideal situation of the rider being obliged to guide the horse along the path by which it itself wants to go.

Sigmund Freud

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

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Sigmund Freud
Source
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
Genre
Psychological literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
German
Time
1933 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Freud, Sigmund. New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990, lecture 31. Originally published as Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse [New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis]. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1933, lecture 31.