Sam

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand—that is art.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being