Ribatul Islam

“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

“But that delusional urge is only one of the varieties of self-deception that encourage us to believe we know another human being and, for that matter, ourselves. This faith in having the measure of others really becomes unstuck when you begin to consider how many you’d acknowledge as having the measure of you. That number dwindles before your eyes.”
― Zia Haider Rahman, In the Light of What We Know

“There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“Love is the most selfish of all the passions.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers