It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Topic

Suffering Learning from suffering Pointless suffering

Author

W. Somerset Maugham

Source

The Moon and Sixpence

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Maugham, William Somerset. The Moon and Sixpence. William Heinemann, 1919, ch. 17.

Current Citation

Maugham, William Somerset. The Moon and Sixpence. Vintage Classics, 2009, ch. 17.

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Another quote about Suffering

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Medium
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Time
1929 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. "A Farewell to Arms." Scribner's Magazine, May 1929 - Oct. 1929, bk. 4, ch. 34.

Current Citation

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Another quote from 1919

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

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Topic
Looking for love
Speaker
Stranger

Author

Sherwood Anderson
Source
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Medium
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Language
English
Time
1919 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Anderson, Sherwood. "Tandy." Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life. B. W. Huebsch, 1919.

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Anderson, Sherwood. "Tandy." Winesburg, Ohio, edited by Marc K. Dudley. W. W. Norton & Company, 2023.