“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness," O'Brien had said to him. He knew what it meant, or thought he knew. The place where there is no darkness was the imagined future, which one would never see, but which, by foreknowledge, one could mystically share in.”
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“Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his release, and at the same time wept for her who released him.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature.”
― Autobiography of a Yogi: (With Pictures)
― Autobiography of a Yogi: (With Pictures)
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