Manas Shukla

“Oh how I hate you, you filthy. But you're cleaner than me, because you've got no mind to sell, just that poor flesh.”
― John Fante, Ask the Dust

“Like a great poet, nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the utmost economy of means: nothing but sun, trees, flowers, water, and love. Of course, if the latter is absent from the beholder’s heart, the whole landscape will be an unpleasing sight; then the sun is merely so many miles in diameter, and the trees provide good firewood, and the flowers are classified according to the number of their stamens, and the water is wet.”
― Heinrich Heine, Die Harzreise

“Mysteries are feminine;
they like to veil themselves
but still want to be seen
and divined.”
― Friedrich Schlegel

“earn what you can since everything's for sale”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales