“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
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“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.”
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
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