Beauty for some provides escape,
Who gain a happiness in eyeing
The gorgeous buttocks of the ape
Or autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Aldous Huxley

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Beauty

Author

Aldous Huxley

Source

Sententious Song Jonah

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Huxley, Aldous. "Sententious Song." Jonah. Holywell Press, 1917.

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Railway termini... Are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

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E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)
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Medium
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Time
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Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?

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Medium
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Time
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Directed by David Hand, Walt Disney Productions, 1937.

Another quote from 1917

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success with it.

Sigmund Freud

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Topic
Effects of childhood Mothers and sons

Author

Sigmund Freud
Genre
Psychological literature
Language
German
Time
1917 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. "Eine Kindheitserinnerung aus 'Dichtung und Wahrheit [A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung und Warheit [Poetry and Truth].'" Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften [Journal of the Application of Psychoanalysis to the Humanities]. Vol. 5, 1917, pp. 49–57.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. "A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung Und Wahrheit.'" The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works, translated by James Strachey. Vol. 17, Vintage, 2001.