Emerson wrote this quote in an essay about friendship. The line that follows is, "Thine ever, or never." As a passionate, intellectual man, we see here in this quote a sharp tendency to state in no uncertain terms his intense feelings.
The French writer wrote short stories, almost as parables, and it is in one of these parables that this quote is found. These parables were collected and published posthumously.
The character Jubal Harshaw says this line in Stranger. Interestingly, in the "Uncut" version of the book, the character does not speak this line. Many argue that Harshaw is the true main character of the book, as he consistently proffers the philosophies another character must deal with.
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Keller's teacher, Sullivan, became a dear friend, and it was in a letter to another acquaintance that Keller mentioned Sullivan providing her an understanding of this quote.
F. Scott Fitzgerald fell in love with a woman named Zelda, who he courted and pursued single-mindedly. At one point a female friend, named Isabelle, heard that the engagement had been called off, and wrote to him. In Fitzgerald's response was the above quote. The sentence following the quote, to Isabelle, reads "You're still a Catholic but Zelda's the only God I have left now." Later in 1920 Zelda and Fitzgerald married.
The play for which this line was written described the barbarian Ingomar and the beautiful Parthenia, who eventually discover the effects love can have to soothe and tame.
An American film producer from the early 1920s, not much information is available about Ralph Block, and, unfortunately, the same is true for this quote.
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