Aditya Shiledar

“Fair Quiet, have I found thee here,
And Innocence, thy sister dear!
Mistaken long, I sought you then
In busy companies of men;
Your sacred plants, if here below,
Only among the plants will grow.
Society is all but rude,
To this delicious solitude.”
― Andrew Marvell

“But nobody did come, because nobody does: and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out if the world.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“Eternally inexorable and unconcerned is Fate, a mere heartless trader in men’s joys and woes.”
― Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

“Balzac, Dante, Joseph Conrad, Dickens," he answered without hesitation.
"Not Exactly fashionable."
"That's why I read them. If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That's the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that. Haven't you noticed, Watanabe? You and I are the only real ones in this dorm. The other guys are crap.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood