There is no thing endowed with life—from man, who is enslaving the elements, to the nimblest creature—in all this world that does not sway in its turn. Whenever action is born from force, though it be infinitesimal, the cosmic balance is upset and the universal motion results.
“In heart and world alike, as if in a cage, there beats a happiness that has never been let out, never been experienced, and every human being feels its power but feels it only as pain, because the action of this happiness is compressed and mutilated in confinement, like a heart inside a skeleton.” – from Soul by Andrey Platonov