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Bhavya Viswarajan

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“But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings here, one like the other.” “That is true” said the priest “but that is how the guilty speak”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

tags: death, guilty, human, human-condition, life, mistakes, priest, trial

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“Do you hope you can expiate the crimes of the past by suffering in the present?”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

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“There was a rhythm, an
alternation in the dripping that I found as teasing as a coin
trick.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

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“I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

tags: nihilism

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“I don’t think that I’ve been in love as such
Although I liked a few folk pretty well
Love must be vaster than my smiles or touch
for brave men died and empires rose and fell
For love, girls follow boys to foreign lands
and men have followed women into hell
In plays and poems someone understands
there’s something makes us more than blood and bone
and more than biological demands
For me love’s like the wind, unseen, unknown
I see the trees are bending where it’s been
I know that it leaves wreckage where it’s blown
I really don’t know what "I love you" means
I think it means "don’t leave me here alone”
― Neil Gaiman, Adventures in the Dream Trade

tags: dark-sonnet, love, poem, poetry, sonnet

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