Pratik Mukherjee

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James Baldwin
“People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

Andrew Solomon
“Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning in their pain.
Suffering does not necessarily imply love, but love implies suffering”
Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Iain S. Thomas
“Sometimes I have a weird dream that we’re all relatively brief sparks of consciousness that live on a rock circling a ball of fire.”
Iain S. Thomas, How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously

Milan Kundera
“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Hanya Yanagihara
“When did pursuing your ambitions cross the line from brave into foolhardy? How did you know when to stop?”
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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