HR BHARATI

“If you want to get to the heart of the dope problem, legalize it . . . [Prohibition is] a law, in operation, that can only be used against the poor.”
― James Baldwin

“I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh”
― Peter Paul Rubens

“. . . we hadn't even noticed when all this had been happening, the words "turning point" and "dawn of a new era" were hardly out of our mouths when precisely this critical, time-bound nature of a turning point and a dawn was rendered ludicrous as we realized that all of a sudden we were living in a new world, had entered a radically new era, and we understood none of it, because everything we had was obsolete, including our conditioned reflexes, our attempts to understand the nature of a process, how "all of this" had "consequently" proceeded from there to here, everything was as obsolete as our conviction to rely on experience, on sober rationality . . .”
― László Krasznahorkai, The World Goes On

“This was quite the leap, since at the time insects were believed to spontaneously generate.”
― Jason Roberts, Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life