“Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.”
― Chronicles, Volume One
― Chronicles, Volume One
“You have to remember, Kanai, she said at length, that as a young man Nirmal was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and their comrades, can never let go of the idea: it's the secret god that rules their hearts. It is what makes them come alive; they revel in the danger, the exquisite pain. It is to them what childbirth is to a woman, or war to mercenary.”
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“They had no use for subtleties; they knew nothing and wanted to know everything.”
― The First Man
― The First Man
“I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must win, must inevitably defeat me, because it is not a presence at all.”
― The Shadow Lines
― The Shadow Lines
“The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings—and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.”
― The Post Office
― The Post Office
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