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Nirbhai Singh

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Nirbhai’s Quotes

“Life can only be understood backward; the trouble is, it has to be lived forward.”
― Zia Haider Rahman, In the Light of What We Know

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“Listening is hard, as my friend once said, because you run the risk of having to change the way you see the world.”
― Zia Haider Rahman, In the Light of What We Know

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“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

tags: connections, explanations, knowledge, seeing

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“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

tags: chauvinism, misogyny, projection, sexism

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“that the truth is finer and that the only answers each of us hears are to the questions we are capable of asking.”
― Zia Haider Rahman, In the Light of What We Know

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