There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked. It always seems to me that people who hate me must be suffering from some strange form of lunacy.

Sei Shonagon

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Topic

Wanting to be liked Man as social animal

Author

Sei Shonagon

Language

Japanese

Time

1002 1000s 11th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Japan Asia

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Sei Shonagon. 枕草子 [The Pillow Book]. c. 1002.

Current Citation

Sei Shonagon. The Pillow Book, translated by Meredith McKinney. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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No man is an Island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes

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Topic
Interconnectedness of all people Man as social animal

Author

John Donne
Source
Meditation XVII Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1624 1620s 17th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Donne, John. "Meditation XVII." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes. London, 1624.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions." Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel. Vintage, 1999, meditation 17.

Another quote originally in Japanese

The old pond-
A frog leaps in,
And a splash.

Matsuo Basho

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Topic
Nature scene

Author

Matsuo Basho
Medium
Haiku Poem
Language
Japanese
Time
1686 1680s 17th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Basho, Matsuo. Haiku. c. 1686.

Current Citation

Basho, Matsuo. Basho: The Complete Haiku, translated by Jane Reichhold. Kodansha International, 2013.