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Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

by Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)

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“I have outlasted all desire,
My dreams and I have grown apart;
My grief alone is left entire,
The gleamings of an empty heart.

The storms of ruthless dispensation
Have struck my flowery garland numb,
I live in lonely desolation
And wonder when my end will come.

Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted
By tardy winter's whistling chill,
A single leaf which has outlasted
Its season will be trembling still.”
― Alexander Pushkin

tags: death, desire, dreams, grief, heart, lonliness, numbness, poetry

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