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सूर्य तो फिर भी उगेगा, धूप तो फिर भी खिलेगी, लेकिन मेरी बगीची की हरी-हरी दूब पर, ओस की बूँद हर मौसम में नहीं मिलेगी।
“You are waiting for me to describe what this silence is so that you can compare it, interpret it, carry it away and bury it. It cannot be described. What can be described is the known, and the freedom from the known can come into being only when there is a dying every day to the known, to the hurts, the flatteries, to all the images you have made, to all your experiences – dying every day so that the brain cells themselves become fresh, young, innocent.”
― Freedom from the Known
― Freedom from the Known
“It's the intellectual who transforms the concept of the world into the problem of meaning.”
― Social Psychology
― Social Psychology
“Why, Katie wondered, eyeing them at the altar, is false love so proud, and true love so fearful?”
― Memoirs and Misinformation
― Memoirs and Misinformation
“a human being living an ordinary everyday life in this brutal, violent, ruthless world – a world which is becoming more and more efficient and therefore more and more ruthless”
― Freedom from the Known
― Freedom from the Known
“It is, in particular, important to distinguish between the inclusionary role of identity and the exclusionary force of separatism.”
― The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
― The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
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