Sign in with Facebook
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it. It is not selfish to think for oneself. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbor that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him. A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.”
― The Soul of Man & Prison Writings
― The Soul of Man & Prison Writings
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
―
―
“Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.”
―
―
“And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because I never really know, I still can't tell the difference, I'm never quite certain whether or not I'm actually alive. I sit here every single day. Run, I said to myself. Run until your lungs collapse, until the wind whips and snaps at your tattered clothes, until you're a blur that blends into the background.
Run, Juliette, run faster, run until your bones break and your shins split and your muscles atrophy and your heart dies because it was always too big for your chest and it beat too fast for too long and you run.
Run run run until you can't hear their feet behind you. Run until they drop their fists and their shouts dissolve in the air. Run with your eyes open and your mouth shut and dam the river rushing up behind your eyes. Run, Juliette.
Run until you drop dead. Make sure your heart stops before they ever reach you. Before they ever touch you.
Run, I said.”
― Unravel Me
Run, Juliette, run faster, run until your bones break and your shins split and your muscles atrophy and your heart dies because it was always too big for your chest and it beat too fast for too long and you run.
Run run run until you can't hear their feet behind you. Run until they drop their fists and their shouts dissolve in the air. Run with your eyes open and your mouth shut and dam the river rushing up behind your eyes. Run, Juliette.
Run until you drop dead. Make sure your heart stops before they ever reach you. Before they ever touch you.
Run, I said.”
― Unravel Me
Pakistani Readers
— 3578 members
— last activity Jan 21, 2026 07:46PM
For Pakistani Readers, authors and every one who like books.
The Literary Circle (Karachi)
— 27 members
— last activity Mar 25, 2016 11:02AM
The Literary Circle (TLC) is a Karachi based book-club. where readers share treasure of knowledge lying undiscovered in the vastness of space and time ...more
Hina’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Hina’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
135 books
|
34 friends
199 books
|
73 friends
2,437 books
|
162 friends
334 books
|
170 friends
17 books
|
70 friends
179 books
|
75 friends
167 books
|
44 friends
32 books
|
58 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Hina
Lists liked by Hina
