Utkarsha

“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka

“You don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore. You're good enough.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Beauty, who was born anew every hundred years, sat in a sort of outdoor waiting room through which blew
gusts of white wind and occasionally a breathless hurried star. The stars winked at her intimately as they went
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by and the winds made a soft incessant flurry in her hair. She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and
spirit were one--the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by
philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for
a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.
It became known to her, at length, that she was to be born again. Sighing, she began a long conversation with
a voice that was in the white wind, a conversation that took many hours and of which I can give only a
fragment here.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Her eyes appeared to regard him out of many thousand years: all emotion she might have felt, all words she might have uttered, would have seemed inadequate beside the adequacy of her silence, ineloquent against the eloquence of her beauty”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned