Self-discovery

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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Franz Kafka

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Topic

Self-discovery Power of literature Books

Author

Franz Kafka

Source

Letters of Franz Kafka

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

German

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kafka, Franz. Letter to Oskar Pollak. 27 Jan. 1904.

Current Citation

Kafka, Franz. Franz Kafka: Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors, translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Schocken, 1990.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

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Topic

Self-discovery Introspection

Speaker

Alexei Alexandrovich

Author

Leo Tolstoy

Source

Anna Karenina

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Russian

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina]. The Russian Messenger, 1875-1877. Serial.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 2014.

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

Tyler Durden

Fight Club

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Topic

Self-knowledge Self-discovery

Speaker

Tyler Durden

Actor

Brad Pitt

Source

Fight Club

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Fight Club. Directed by David Fincher, Fox 2000 Pictures/Regency Enterprises/Linson Films, 1999.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

George Eliot

Daniel Deronda

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Topic

Understanding oneself Self-discovery Inner life

Author

George Eliot

Source

Daniel Deronda

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1876 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876, bk. 3, ch. 24.

Current Citation

Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda. Oxford University Press, 2014, bk. 3, ch. 24.

I discovered me in the library.

Ray Bradbury

Quoted in Paris Review

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Topic

Libraries Self-discovery Reading Books

Speaker

Ray Bradbury

Source

Art of Fiction interview Paris Review

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

2010 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Bradbury, Ray. "Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203." Interviewed by Sam Weller. Paris Review, Spring 2010.

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

Kate Chopin

The Awakening

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Topic

Growing up Self-discovery Authenticity

Author

Kate Chopin

Source

The Awakening

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1899 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899, ch. 19.

Current Citation

Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening." The Awakening and Selected Stories. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 19.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.

Fred Rogers

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Topic

Self-discovery Therapy Hard work

Author

Fred Rogers

Source

The World According to Mister Rogers

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 13.

Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

Louise Bourgeois

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Topic

Nature of art Self-awareness Self-discovery Self-knowledge Art

Speaker

Louise Bourgeois

Source

Bourgeois

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Kuspit, Donald Burton. Interviewed by Louise Bourgeois. 1988.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Jackson Pollock

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Topic

Self-discovery Self-expression Artistic expression Painting Art

Speaker

Jackson Pollock

Source

Conversations with Artists: 35 American Painters, Sculptors and Architects Discuss Their Work and One Another with Selden Rodman

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Pollock, Jackson. Interviewed by Selden Rodman. c. 1956.

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Topic

Reading Self-discovery Books Power of literature

Author

Marcel Proust

Source

Time Regained In Search of Lost Time

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

French

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.