The wise and tragic sense of life. By this I mean...the sense that life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat, and that the redeeming things are not "happiness and pleasure" but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Topic

Nature of life Adversity

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source

Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "To: Scottie Fitzgerals, October 5, 1940." Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Scribner, 1995. Originally from Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 5 Oct. 1940.

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Language
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Time
1945 1940s 20th century
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Citation

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Life, what is it but a dream?

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Medium
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Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
1871 1870s 19th century
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Original Citation

Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan, 1871, ch. 12.

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Winston Churchill

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World War II
Speaker
Winston Churchill
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
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Churchill, Winston. "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat." House of Commons meeting. 13 May 1940, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

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Churchill, Winston. "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.