One of the best things about love is just recognizing a man's step when he climbs the stairs.

Colette

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Topic

Lifelong love Love

Author

Colette

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

French

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

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France Europe

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Citation

Colette. Looking Backwards. Peter Owen, 1975.

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Another quote from the 1940s

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Simone Weil

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Topic
Nature of power

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Simone Weil
Language
French
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Weil, Simone. "L'iliade ou le poeme de la force [The Iliad, or The Poem of Force]." Les Cahiers du Sud, 1940.

Current Citation

Weil, Simone. "The Iliad, or The Poem of Force." Simone Weil: An Anthology, translated by Sian Miles. Grove Press, 2000.

Another quote about Love

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

Beloved

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Topic
Nature of love Love
Speaker
Sethe

Author

Toni Morrison
Source
Beloved
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1987 1980s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

Another quote from 1941

Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Pearl Harbor World War II
Speaker
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1941 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. "Day of Infamy." US Congress meeting. 8 Dec. 1941, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Another quote originally in French

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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Nature of truth

Author

Michel de Montaigne
Source
Of Experience Essays
Medium
Essay
Language
French
Time
1580 1580s 16th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

De Montaigne, Michel. "De l'Experience [Of Experience]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

Current Citation

De Montaigne, Michel. "On Experience." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.