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‘The greatest tragedy,’ Bhima began, the very next evening after he had moved into Prithvi’s hostel room, ‘call it a crime even, is when those with power and privilege refuse to speak, to lend their voice to those who have no voice.’
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
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“... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.”
― The Cave
― The Cave
“...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up hope of it ever arriving, it's likely then that we won't know what to do, and rather than it being a question of choosing between laughter and tears, we will be filled by a secret anxiety to which we might not know how to respond at all.”
― The Double
― The Double
“Don't you know, If you don't step outside yourself, you'll never discover who you are”
― The Tale of the Unknown Island
― The Tale of the Unknown Island
“You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.”
― Blindness
― Blindness
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