“As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these:
a) Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared.”
― The God of Small Things
a) Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared.”
― The God of Small Things
“There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it´s just the contrary. Often it´s something you paid no attention to at the time -- a vague thought that you didn´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed -- these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
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