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“To my countrymen
who gave unto themselves the constitution but not the ability to keep it,who inherited resplendent heritage but not the wisdom to cherish it,who suffer and endure in pain without the perception of their potential.”
― We, The People: India, the largest Democracy
who gave unto themselves the constitution but not the ability to keep it,who inherited resplendent heritage but not the wisdom to cherish it,who suffer and endure in pain without the perception of their potential.”
― We, The People: India, the largest Democracy
“In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.”
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“We are sealed in our own little melancholy atmospheres, like planets, and revolving around the sun, our common but distant desire.”
― Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
― Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”
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“But where is the antidote for lucid despair, perfectly articulated, proud, and sure? All of us are miserable, but how many know it? The consciousness of misery is too serious a disease to figure in an arithmetic of agonies or in the catalogues of the Incurable. It belittles the prestige of hell, and converts the slaughterhouses of time into idyls. What sin have you committed to be born, what crime to exist? Your suffering like your fate is without motive. To suffer, truly to suffer, is to accept the invasion of ills without the excuse of causality, as a favor of demented nature, as a negative miracle. . .”
― A Short History of Decay
― A Short History of Decay
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