Sam

“Today we come across an individual who behaves like an automaton, who does not know or understand himself, and the only person that he knows is the person that he is supposed to be, whose meaningless chatter has replaced communicative speech, whose synthetic smile has replaced genuine laughter, and whose sense of dull despair has taken the place of genuine pain.”
― Erich Fromm

“Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since”
― Josephine Hart

“let's get away from
all the clever humans
who put words in our mouth
let's only say what our hearts desire.”
― Rumi

“And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five