Emma Smith

“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Jurgis recollected how, when he had first come to Packington, he had stood and watched the hog killing, and thought how cruel and savage it was, and come away congratulating himself that he was not a hog; now his new acquaintance showed him that a hog was just what he had been.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Jungle