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“In no social institution is the codified ritual of behavior more rigid than in funerals. Imagine the indignation if the minister altered his sermon or experimented with facial expression. Consider the shock if, at the funeral parlors, any chairs were used but those little folding yellow torture chairs with the hard seats. No, dying, a man may be loved, hated, mourned, missed; but once dead he becomes the chief ornament of a complicated and formal social celebration.”
Tortilla Flat • John Steinbeck“Individuality is, to the rational man, the same that breath, the circulation of blood, is to the animal.”
What Is To Be Done? • Leo Tolstoy“He that knows not what the world is, knows not where he is himself. He that knows not for what he was made, knows not what he is nor what the world is.”
Book VIII • Marcus Aurelius“Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Übermensch--a rope over an abyss.”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra • F Nietzsche“Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering -- a hell of boredom.”
Les Misérables • VICTOR HUGO