Anshul

“Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Imperialism, like dictatorship sears the soul, degrades the spirit, and makes individuals small, the better to rule them. Fear and cowardice are its allies. Imperialism is government of other people, by other people, and for other people.
Colonial administration never is, and never can be successful. History has known no good colonisers. Every empire digs its own grave. Imperialism is a perpetual insult, for it assumes that the outsiders has the right to rule the insider who cannot rule themselves, it is thus arrogant nationalism and inevitably begets an opposing nationalism.”
― Louis Fischer, Life of Mahatma Gandhi

“Never again would Buddhism receive the scale of imperial patronage devoted to it during the reign of the Empress Wu; never again would the civilisations of India and China be bound together so intimately.”
― William Dalrymple, The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves