Bhoomika

“It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“To translate is never simple. To translate is to betray at the borders, it’s to cheat, it’s to trade one sentence for another. To translate is one of the only human activities in which one is required to lie about the details to convey the truth at large. To translate is to risk understanding better than others that the truth about a word is not single, but double, even triple, quadruple, or quintuple. To translate is to distance oneself from God’s truth, which, as everyone knows or believes, is single.”
― David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

“Man’s misfortune stems from the fact that he does not want to stay in the room where he belongs.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque