Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anaïs Nin

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Topic

Courage Living life to the fullest Life

Author

Anaïs Nin

Source

Journals of Anaïs Nin

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

Nin, Anaïs. "June, 1941." The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 3, 1939-1944, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1969.

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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.

Zora Neale Hurston

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Topic
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Author

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Source
Dust Tracks on a Road
Genre
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Language
English
Time
1942 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942, ch. 16.

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

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Another quote from 1941

A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Topic
Culture

Author

Alfred North Whitehead
Language
English
Time
1941 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Whitehead, Alfred North. Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, edited by Lucien Price. David. R. Godine, 2008, ch. 22. Originally from dialogue with Lucien Price, 30 Aug. 1941.