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“And when you see a man who is repining at the approach of death, is not his reluctance a sufficient proof that he is not a lover of wisdom, but a lover of the body, and probably at the same time a lover of either money or power, or both?”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“ "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin."”
Metamorphosis and Other Stories • Franz Kafka“I, too, am a poor, weak dog that needs a little warmth and food, and would occasionally like to feel the nearness of his own kind”
Demian • Hermann Hesse““She was, as you know already without as yet knowing anything, the Lily of this valley, where she grew for heaven, filling it with the fragrance of her virtues.””
The Lily Of The Valley • Honore de Balzac“Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother’s cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.”
Travels with Charley: In Search of America • John Steinbeck