Saurabh Mathur

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
― Thomas Paine

“The weapon of criticism obviously cannot replace the criticism of
weapons. Material force must be overthrown by material force. But
theory also becomes a material force once it has gripped the masses.”
― Karl Marx

“Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption. The same applies to our view of the past, which is the concern of history... There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.”
― Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

“Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.”
― Haruki Murakami, Yesterday