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“It is misfortune of small precise men to hanker after large and flamboyant women.”
― The Labours of Hercules
― The Labours of Hercules
“Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain. suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war. and hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses causal relationships that cannot be separated.”
― NARUTO -ナルト- 63
― NARUTO -ナルト- 63
“Is he then an unhappy man?"
Poirot said :
"So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy."
The nun said softly: "Ah, a rich man...”
― The Labours of Hercules
Poirot said :
"So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy."
The nun said softly: "Ah, a rich man...”
― The Labours of Hercules
“Urdu is an aristocratic language. It was not the language of the working classes. Those who are left—the artisans—speak Karkhana [factory] Urdu. The Urdu of the poets is dead.”
― City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
― City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
“Reading about life was no preparation for living it.”
― The Maidens
― The Maidens
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