Arpit Raj

“Art is where what we survive survives.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“After the death of the poet Jane Kenyon, her husband Donald Hall wrote, “We did not spend our days gazing into each other’s eyes. We did that gazing when we made love or when one of us was in trouble, but most of the time our gazes met and entwined as they looked at a third thing. Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment. Each member of a couple is separate; the two come together in double attention.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Vonnegut did not seem to be saying, as I understood Hem[ingway] to be saying, that his Terrible Event had forever exempted him from the usual human obligations of being kind, attempting to understand, behaving decently. On the contrary, Vonnegut seemed to feel that unkindness--a simple, idiotic failure of belief in the human, by men and their systems--had been the cause of his Terrible Event, and that what he had learned from this experience was not the importance of being tough and hard and untouchable, but the importance of preserving the kindness in ourselves at all costs.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

“मैं विनती करता हूँ, मुझे खत मत लिखना-आज विनती करता हूँ क्योंकि आज्ञा देने का अब साहस भी नहीं, अधिकार भी नहीं, व्यक्तित्व भी नहीं।”
― धर्मवीर भारती, गुनाहों का देवता