Closing lines

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

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Topic

Effects of the past The past The human condition

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source

The Great Gatsby

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Closing lines Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 9.

All collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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Topic

Ocean and sea

Author

Herman Melville

Source

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Closing lines

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 135.

Current Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 135.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Henrik Ibsen

An Enemy of the People

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Topic

Solitude Thinking for oneself

Speaker

Doctor Thomas Stockmann

Author

Henrik Ibsen

Source

An Enemy of the People

Medium

Play

Statement Type

Closing lines

Language

Norwegian

Time

1882 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Ibsen, Henrik. En folkefiende [An Enemy of the People]. Kobenhavn: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1882, act 5.

Current Citation

Ibsen, Henrik. "An Enemy of the People." A Doll's House and Other Plays, translated by Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik. Penguin Classics, 2016, act 5.

Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

Willa Cather

My Antonia

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Topic

Shared history

Author

Willa Cather

Source

My Antonia

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Closing lines

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Cather, Willa. My Antonia. Houghton Mifflin, 1918, bk. 5, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 5, ch. 3.