Sinch

“There are no real moral dilemmas. It is doubtful that our deepest desires pull equally in opposite directions – 'should I, or should I not?' If the soul is pulled more firmly in one direction, then it is not in a moral dilemma. It faces an impulse. An itch. We wish to look good to ourselves.”
― U.R. Ananthamurthy, Avasthe

“But, in the end, it is the threat of universal extinction hanging over all the world today that changes, totally and for ever, the nature of reality and brings into devastating question the true meaning of man's history. We human beings now have the power to exterminate ourselves; this seems to be the entire sum of our achievement. We have taken this journey and arrived at this place in God's name. This, then, is the best that God (the white God) can do. If that is so, then it is time to replace Him — replace Him with what? And this void, this despair, this torment is felt everywhere in the West, from the streets of Stockholm to the churches of New Orleans and the sidewalks of Harlem.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.”
― William Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“I was very deliberate in my choice to not use italics for the Kannada, Urdu and Arabic words that remain untranslated in English. Italics serve to not only distract visually, but more importantly, they announce words as imported from another language, exoticising them and keeping them alien to English. By not italicising them, I hope the reader can come to these words without interference, and in the process of reading with the flow, perhaps even learn a new word or two in another language. Same goes for footnotes - there are none.

Against Italics: Translator's Notes”
― Deepa Bhasthi, Heart Lamp: Selected Stories