Deep Sourav

“Nothing in this house moves until you look away, and then you just catch something from the corner of your eye.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad . . .”
― Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay

“Fortunately there are wars. And rationing is one of the grandest inventions of man. You stamp paper with figures and you feed stomachs on numbers.”
― Raja Rao, The Cat and Shakespeare

“You take away economic security and the whole pack of cards collapses. Everyone is at each other’s throats. All these vaunted bourgeois values that prop up society – love, duty, honour, respect – all rest on power-relations lubricated by economics. They are the gloss people put on the naked truth: self-interest.”
― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others