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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This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1884, pt. 2.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 2.

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

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Medium
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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night, Or What You Will. 1602, Middle Temple Hall, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 1.

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There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

Marcel Proust

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Learning from suffering

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

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

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