"I can perhaps even imagine (though it is not easy) that each of the people whom I see in the street is in frightful pain, but is artfully concealing it." -Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations #391

"The active aim (to torture, to look at) is replaced by the passive aim to be tortured, to be looked at" -Freud, Three Essays of the Theory of Sexuality, page 127.

"I flutter now on this flush pomegranate bough." -Keats