Novel · Modernist literatureThe only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.Marcel ProustIn Search of Lost Time · 1922★ 7.0
Novel · Modernist literatureThe bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.Marcel ProustIn Search of Lost Time · 1922★ 6.1
Novel · Modernist literatureWe are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.Marcel ProustIn Search of Lost Time · 1922★ 5.5
Courtroom speech · SpeechNon-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show to my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiples evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence.Mahatma Gandhi1922★ 5.4
EssayAll civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.Havelock Ellis1922★ 5.1
Courtroom speech · SpeechNonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.Mahatma Gandhi1922★ 4.6
Novel · Modernist literatureThere is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.Marcel ProustIn Search of Lost Time · 1922★ 4.5
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.James George FrazerThe Golden Bough · 1922★ 4.3
Personal journalHow can you hesitate? Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.Katherine Mansfield1922★ 4.3
Novel · Modernist literatureA man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.James JoyceUlysses · 1922★ 3.8
Novel · Modernist literatureThe sea... The snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.James JoyceUlysses · 1922★ 3.8
Treatise · Philosophical literatureThe limits of my language mean the limits of my world.Ludwig Wittgenstein1922★ 3.8
PoemApril is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.T.S. EliotThe Waste Land · 1922★ 3.8
Novel · Modernist literatureThanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.Marcel ProustIn Search of Lost Time · 1922★ 3.7
NewspaperYou think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.Anatole France1922★ 3.6
Poem · War poetryThey died to save their country and they only saved the world.G.K. Chesterton1922★ 3.6
skopiaskopia