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“I”
― James Joyce, The James Joyce Collection

“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

“Man has made a discovery ... the way to make life easy is to make it meaningless.”
― Kierkegaard, Soren

“It is like looking down from the clifs of Moher into the depths. Many go down into the depths and never come up. Only the trained diver can go down into those depths and explore them and come to the surface again.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man