The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. On either side it is pride, but understood in a different way.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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England and France England France

Author

Alexis de Tocqueville

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1835 1830s 19th century

Occupation

Historian Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. Voyage en Angleterre et en Irlande de 1835 [Journeys to England and Ireland]. c. 1835.

Current Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. Journeys to England and Ireland, translated by George Lawrence and K. P. Mayer. Routledge, 2017.

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The time will come when this universe and nature herself will be no more. And just as of very great human kingdoms and empires and of their marvelous exploits, which were so very famous in other ages, there remains no sign of fame whatsoever, so too of the entire world, and of the infinite vicissitudes and calamities of all created things, no single trace will remain, but a naked silence and a most profound quiet will fill the immensity of space. Thus, this stupendous and frightening mystery of universal existence, before it can be declared or understood, will vanish and be lost.

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Time
1835 1830s 19th century
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Original Citation

Leopardi, Giacomo. "Cantico del gallo silvestre [Song of the Wild Rooster]." Operette morali [Small Moral Works]. Naples: Presso Saverio Starita, 1835.

Current Citation

Leopardi, Giacomo. "Song of the Great Wild Rooster." Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues. University of California Press, 1983.

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The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

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Marcel Proust
Source
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Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. La Prisonnière [The Prisoner]. Paris: Gallimard, 1923.

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