Swapna

“Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?”
― Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence

“To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“All men needed to hear their stories told. He was a man, but if he died without telling the story he would be something less than that, an albino cockroach, a louse. The dungeon did not udnerstand the idea of as tory. The dungeon was static, eternal, black and a story needed motion adn tiem and light. He felt his story slipping away from him, beocming inconsequential, ceasing to be. He has no story. There was no story. He was not a man. There was no man here. There was only the dungeon, and the slithering dark.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence