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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“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde“The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women ... merely adored.”
The Ideal Husband • Oscar Wilde“Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. His landlady's cook, who always brought him his breakfast at eight o'clock, failed to appear on this occasion. That had never happened before.”
The Trial • Franz Kafka“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”
Prometheus Misbound • Andre Gide
