Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence: but I seem to have found from somewhere the trick of filling in the gaps in my knowledge, so that everything is in my head, down to the last detail, such as the way the mist
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“Our names contain our fates; living as we do in a place where names have not acquired the meaninglessness of the West, and are still more than mere sounds, we are also the victims of our titles.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
“Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence;”
― Midnight's Children
― Midnight's Children
“if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.”
― Midnight's Children
― Midnight's Children
“India, the new myth – a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.”
― Midnight's Children
― Midnight's Children
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