Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

De Profundis

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Topic

Alienation from oneself Living inauthentically

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

De Profundis

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Ireland Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wilde, Oscar. Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas. Jan.-Mar. 1897.

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Happiness is the deferred fulfillment of a prehistoric wish. That is why wealth brings so little happiness; money is not an infantile wish.

Sigmund Freud

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Topic
Happiness

Author

Sigmund Freud
Medium
Letter
Statement Type
Definition
Language
German
Time
1898 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Wilhelm Fliess. 16 Jan. 1898.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904, translated and edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Harvard University Press, 1985.