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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“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
Emma • Jane Austen“Man’s being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it.”
History as a System • Jose Ortega y Gasset““When asked, 'Why do you always wear black?', he said, 'I am mourning for my life.'””
Seagull • Anton Chekhov“History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake.”
Ulysses • James Joyce