Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

Ah! que la vie est quotidienne.

Jules Laforgue

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Topic

Nature of life Spending time Passage of time Life

Author

Jules Laforgue

Source

Les Complaintes

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1885 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Uruguay South America

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Citation

Laforgue, Jules. "Complainte sur certains ennuis." Les Complaintes. Paris: Léon Vanier, 1885.

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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

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Topic
Dangerous ideas Power of ideas

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Beyond Good and Evil
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Proverbs, aphorisms and adages
Language
German
Time
1886 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 4, no. 146.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4, no. 146.

Another quote about Nature of life

Birth, and copulation, and death.
That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

T.S. Eliot

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Topic
Nature of life Life
Speaker
Sweeney

Author

T.S. Eliot
Source
Fragment of an Agon
Language
English
Time
1932 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Eliot, T. S. "Fragment of an Agon." Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama. Faber & Faber, 1932.

Another quote originally in French

There are no small steps in great affairs.

Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz

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Topic
Going for it Taking risks

Author

Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Language
French
Time
1717 1710s 18th century
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Citation

Gondi Paul De, Jean-Francois. Memoires du Cardinal de Retz [The Memoirs of the cardinal de Retz]. c. 1717, bk. 2.