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“Like a dog!" he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.”
― Gloria Steinem

“He loves me, he loves me not, we are taught to say, as we tear the flower from its flowerness. To arrive at love, then, is to arrive through obliteration. Eviscerate me, we mean to say, and I'll tell you the truth.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet