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Avirup Chakraborty

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“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: endurance, life, loss, love

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“It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it.

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The silence seemed to be trying to tell him something about itself.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Book 1

tags: silence

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“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: cynic

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“I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

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“How unlucky I am that this should happen to me. But not at all. Perhaps, say how lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened, and I am not afraid of what is about to happen. For the same blow might have stricken anyone, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation and complaint.”
― Marcus Aurelius

tags: marcus-aurelius, unlucky

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