We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermere's Fan

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Topic

Stars The human condition

Speaker

Lord Darlington

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

Lady Windermere's Fan

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedic play

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman. 1892, St James's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "Lady Windermere's Fan." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 3.

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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Sigmund Freud

The Interpretation of Dreams

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Interpretation and analysis Dreams

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Sigmund Freud
Source
The Interpretation of Dreams
Genre
Psychological literature
Language
German
Time
1899 1890s 19th century
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Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Die Traumdeutung [The Interpretation of Dreams]. Leipzig und Wien: Franz Deuticke, 1900, ch. 7, sect. E.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams, translated and edited by James Strachey. Basic Books, 2010, ch. 7, sect. E.

Another quote about The human condition

The bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Existential solitude Connecting with others Isolation The human condition

Author

Marcel Proust
Source
The Fugitive In Search of Lost Time
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
French
Time
1922 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.