Adarsh Chauhan

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Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself. Bad design, on the other hand, screams out its ...more
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Lawrence Durrell
“I realized then the truth about all love: that it is an absolute which takes all or forfeits all. The other feelings, compassion, tenderness and so on, exist only on the periphery and belong on the constructions of society and habit. But she herself- austere and merciless Aphrodite-is a pagan. it is not our brains or instincts which she picks-but our very bones.”
Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

Richard Llewellyn
“It is strange how loud little sounds become when you are in the dark and doing something wrong.”
Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

Lawrence Durrell
“Youth is the age of despairs.”
Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

Tara Westover
“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.”
Tara Westover, Educated

Tara Westover
“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me.”
Tara Westover, Educated

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