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Genre:
"Prose"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Twentieth Century"
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"Modernism"
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Date: 1911
"A friend may almost literally pour out his soul into our waiting ears, or we may almost literally read it in his eyes."
preview | full record— Lewis, Edwin Herbert (1866-1938)
Date: 1920
"To use a metaphor, it is as if the activity of the suppressed body of experience is accompanied by an affective disturbance which boils over on certain occasions, so that some of the steam reaches the conscious level, while the main disturbance still continues to be wholly cut off from conscious...
preview | full record— Rivers, William H. R. (1864-1922)
Date: 1925
"A man of action is likely to be a poor thinker, if a thinker at all, while the ideal of the sage, the stoic for instance, is to live detached and to keep his soul motionless like a still lake which impassively mirrors the fleeting skies."
preview | full record— Ortega y Gasset, José (1883-1955)
