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“This that I am, whatever it be, is mere flesh and a little breathe and the ruling Reason ”
Book II • Marcus Aurelius“ “Everywhere was in silence, like the velvet feet of death. And I was condemned to live; to live!””
My Sweet Orange Tree • José Mauro de Vasconcelos“Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
A Room of One's Own • Virginia Woolf“Therefore each of us must discover for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden—forbidden to him.”
Demian • Hermann Hesse“The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. As they say in the United States: "to be different is to be indecent." The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. And it is clear, of course, that this "everybody" is not "everybody." "Everybody" was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialised minorities. Nowadays, "everybody" is the mass alone.”
the Revolt of the Masses • Jose Ortega y Gasset