Lingaraj Sahoo

“I love the smell of book ink in the morning.”
― Umberto Eco

“We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.”
― José Emilio Pacheco, Battles in the Desert & Other Stories

“American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won’t violate one another’s privacies. This makes it a land of small talk. Two people greet each other happily, with friendliness, but might know each other for years before venturing basic questions about each other’s backgrounds....In the East, I’ve heard it said, there’s intimacy without friendship; in the West, there’s friendship without intimacy.”
― Karan Mahajan

“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
― Rabindranath Tagore