Naturalness and ease of manner-a product of sophistication which the gullible interpret as a sign of instant affinity.

Une pareille aisance de manieres, cette simplicite, qui est un raffinement, et ou les naifs apercoivent l'expression d'une sympathie instantee.

Gustave Flaubert

Sentimental Education

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Topic

Self-assurance Confidence

Author

Gustave Flaubert

Source

Sentimental Education

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. L'Education sentimentale [Sentimental Education]. Paris: Michel Levy, 1869, pt. 1, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Sentimental Education, translated by Patrick Coleman and Helen Constantine. Oxford University Press, 2016, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.

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Madame Bovary
Medium
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Time
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Original Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province [Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners]. Revue de Paris, 1 Oct. 1856 - 15 Dec. 1856. Serial.

Current Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2011, pt. 3, ch. 6.

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We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast. But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it’s one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Author

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Source
Crime and Punishment
Medium
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Language
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Time
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Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Feodor. Преступленіе и наказаніе [Crime and Punishment]. The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1866 - Dec. 1866, monthly serial.

Current Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment, translated and edited by Michael R. Katz. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.

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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

Eugene Ionesco

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Topic
Dead people
Speaker
Berenger

Author

Eugene Ionesco
Source
Rhinoceros
Medium
Play
Language
French
Time
1959 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Ionesco, Eugene. Rhinoceros. 1959, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany, act 1.