Aditya Shukla

“that is what you do when you breathe, you trespass, again and again you trespass on the world.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, My Struggle: Book 1

“If you read any poetry or stories coming out these days, you know what I mean when I say that you can smell the stench of liquor coming from the words they write. And underneath their sentences lies a pile of chicken and goat bones, and the skeletons of the innocent ones. If you poke the head of the broom into contemporary literature, you'll find a hollow wall stuffed full of money — impure, dirty money.”
― Uday Prakash

“What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar - and no savage criminals to rid the world of? What would he have done in the absence of such challenges?

Obviously he would have just rolled over in bed and gone back to sleep. So by snoring his life away in luxury and comfort he never would have developed into the mighty Hercules.

And even if he had, what good would it have done him? What would have been the use of those arms, that physique, and that noble soul, without crises or conditions to stir into him action?”
― Epictetus, The Discourses

“I, for my part, never looked forward to anything except the moment the office door closed behind me and I was alone and able to write.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, A Man In Love