Suma Rai

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“Krishna says: "Arjuna, I am the taste of pure water and the radiance of the sun and moon. I am the sacred word and the sound heard in air, and the courage of human beings. I am the sweet fragrance in the earth and the radiance of fire; I am the life in every creature and the striving of the spiritual aspirant”
Bhagavad Gita

Katherine Boo
“Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Ahmed Mostafa
“May you find what you are looking for and realize it is not the answer.”
Ahmed Mostafa

Stephen Greenblatt
“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
Stephen Greenblatt

Gustave Flaubert
“You should have a heart in order to feel other people's hearts.”
Flaubert Gustave

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