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“Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin and they end with no lasting memory made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life.”
― (500) Days of Summer: The Shooting Script
― (500) Days of Summer: The Shooting Script
“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won’t be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there – to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do unless you get there.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.”
― The Sign of Four
― The Sign of Four
“To Beatrice-
My love flew like a butterfly
Until death swooped down like a bat
As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said:
'That's the end of that”
― The Miserable Mill
My love flew like a butterfly
Until death swooped down like a bat
As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said:
'That's the end of that”
― The Miserable Mill
“शेवटी संस्कृती म्हणजे बाजरीची भाकरी... वांग्याचे भरीत...गणपतीबाप्पा मोरया ची मुक्त आरोळी. केळीच्या पानातली भाताची मूद आणि त्यावरचे वरण. उघड्या पायांनी तुडवलेला पंचगंगेचा काठ...मारूतीच्या देवळात एका दमात फोडलेल्या नारळातले उडालेले पाणी...दुस-याचा पाय चूकुन लागल्यावर देखील आपण प्रथम केलेला नमस्कार...दिव्या दिव्यादिपत्कार...आजीने सांगितलेल्या भुतांच्या गोष्टी... मारुतीची न जळणारी आणि वाटेल तेव्हा लहानमोठी होणारी शेपटी...दस-याला वाटायची आपट्याची पाने...पंढरपुरचे धुळ आणि अबिर यांच्या समप्रमाणात मिसळून खाल्लेले डाळे आणि साखरफुटाणे...सिंहगडावर भरुन आलेली छाती आणि दिवंगत आप्त्यांच्या मुठभर अस्थींचा गंगार्पणाच्या वेळी झालेला स्पर्श...कुंभाराच्या चाकावर फिरणा-या गोळ्याला त्याचे पाण्याने भिजलेले नाजुक हात लागून घाटादार मडके घडावे तसा ह्या अद्रूश्य पण भावनेने भिजलेल्या हांतानी हा पिंड घडत असतो.कुणाला देशी मडक्याचा आकार येतो.कुणाला विदेशी कपबशीचा...”
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