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“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
― Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables

“Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“നാം അനുഭവിക്കാത്ത ജീവിതങ്ങളെല്ലാം നമുക്ക് വെറും കെട്ടുകഥകള്‍ മാത്രമാണ്.”
― Benyamin, ആടുജീവിതം / Aatujeevitham

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.”
― Li Po

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Everything is going to be fine in the end.
If it's not fine it's not the end.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“There is no perfection only life”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“ഒരു നല്ല മുസ്ലീമും ഒരു നല്ല കമ്യൂണിസ്റ്റുകാരനും നല്ല ഹിന്ദുവുമൊക്കെയാകുന്നതില്‍ ഒരു തിന്മയുണ്ട് കാലത്തിനോടെന്ന പോലെ സ്വന്തത്തോടും അയാള്‍ നീതി ചെയ്യുന്നില്ല എന്നതാണത്. താന്‍ ജീവിക്കുന്ന കാലത്തിനോടാണ് ഒരുവന്‍റെ ആദ്യത്തെ പ്രതിബദ്ധത. എല്ലാ മതത്തിലേയും മൌലികവാദികള്‍ക്ക് പ്രതിബദ്ധത വേറൊരു കാലത്തിനോടാണ്. വേറൊരു കാലത്തുണ്ടായിട്ടുള്ള തത്വശാസ്ത്രത്തിനോടോ ഗ്രന്ഥങ്ങളോടോ ആണ്.”
― Anand