Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

Aimer, ce n’est pas se regarder l’un l’autre, c’est regarder ensemble dans la même direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Topic

Nature of love Love Relationships

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Source

Wind, Sand and Stars

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

French

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Terre des hommes [Wind, Sand and Stars]. Gallimard, 1939.

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Come on down to my apartment-I want to show you some remarkably fine etchings I just bought.

Dorothy Parker

Quoted in The New Yorker

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Dorothy Parker
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The New Yorker
Medium
Magazine
Statement Type
Sexual innuendo Invitation
Language
English
Time
1931 1930s 20th century
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Parker, Dorothy. New Yorker. c. 25 July 1931.

Another quote about Love

What is Love?... It is the morning and the evening star.

Sinclair Lewis

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Topic
Nature of love Love

Author

Sinclair Lewis
Source
Elmer Gantry
Medium
Novel
Genre
Satire
Statement Type
Definition
Language
English
Time
1927 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1927, ch. 20.

Current Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Signet, 2007, ch. 20.

Another quote from 1939

Success is relative:
It is what we can make of the mess we have
made of things.

T.S. Eliot

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Topic
Success
Speaker
Agatha

Author

T.S. Eliot
Source
The Family Reunion
Medium
Play
Language
English
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Eliot, T. S. The Family Reunion. Performed by Michael Redgrave, Helen Haye, and Catherine Lacey. 1939, Westminster Theatre, London, England, UK, pt. 2, sc. 3.

Another quote originally in French

Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of various qualities and advantages.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Topic
Nature of love

Author

Marcel Proust
Source
Sodom and Gomorrah In Search of Lost Time
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
French
Time
1921 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Sodom and Gomorrah. Paris: Grasset/Gallimard, 1921-1922.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. Sodom and Gomorrah, translated by John Sturrock. Penguin Classics, 2005.