more comparative literature

From Twilight of the Idols:

Whoever must do secretly, with long suspense, caution, and cunning, what he can do best and would like most to do, becomes anemic[.]

From "A Dream Deferred":

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?

from Twilight of the Idols

" 'What is the task of all higher education?' To turn men into machines. 'What are the means?' Man must learn to be bored. 'How is that accomplished?' By means of the concept of duty. [...] 'Who is the perfect man?' The civil servant."

A version of this idea in song is available here.

overheard on the street

50-something man, indignant, to 40-something woman, sympathetic: "I won't tolerate that kind of behavior in front of the dogs."