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“Today an extraordinary adventure took place”
― Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman

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“You might wonder why the headmaster allowed the children to swim naked. There were no rules about it. If you brought your suit and wanted to wear it, that was perfectly all right. On the other hand, like today, when you suddenly decided to go in and hadn’t a suit, that was perfectly all right, too. And why did he let them swim in the nude? Because he thought it wasn’t right for boys and girls to be morbidly curious about the differences in their bodies, and he thought it was unnatural for people to take such pains to hide their bodies from each other.”
― Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

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“On the twenty-fifth day of March, an extraordinary strange incident occurred in Petersburg.”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Nose

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“The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

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“What more consolation can there be! A God-believing Hindu may expect to be reborn a king; a Muslim or a Christian might dream of the luxuries he hopes to enjoy in paradise as a reward for his sufferings and sacrifices. What hope should I entertain? I know that will be the end when the rope is tightened round my neck and the rafters move from under my feet. To use more precise religious terminology, that will be the moment of utter annihilation. My soul will come to nothing. If I take the courage to take the matter in the light of ‘Reward’, I see that a short life of struggle with no such magnificent end shall itself be my ‘Reward.’ That is all.”
― Bhagat Singh, Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse

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