In those days, when every male who could stand half-way erect was being shipped to Verdun to undergo a radical change of posture from the vertical to the eternal horizontal.

Was in jenen Zeiten, da man alles nur einigermaßen gerade Gewachsene nach Verdun schickte, um es auf Frankreichs Boden in die ewige Waagrechte zu bringen.

Günter Grass

The Tin Drum

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Topic

World War I War

Author

Günter Grass

Source

The Tin Drum

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Nobel laureate Poet Writer

From

Poland Europe

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Citation

Die Blechtrommel [The Tin Drum]. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff. Franz Seitz Filmproduktion/Bioskop Film, 1959.

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Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

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Topic
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Author

Allen Saunders
Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
1957 1950s 20th century
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Citation

Saunders, Allen. Quoted in Reader's Digest. Jan. 1957.

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Carthage must be destroyed.

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Cato the Elder

Author

Plutarch
Source
Plutarch's Lives
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Statement Type
Declaration
Language
Latin
Time
149 BC 140s BC 2nd century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Citation

Cato the Elder. Speech within the Roman Senate prior to the Third Punic War. c. 149 BC, Rome, Italy.

Another quote originally in German

We need in love to practice only this:
Letting each other go. For holding on
Comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic
Relationships Letting go

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
German
Time
1909 1900s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Requiem fur eine Freundin [Requiem for a Friend]. c. 1908.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Requiem for a Friend." The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Vintage, 1989.