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Yukio Mishima
“He wanted to talk about the strange passion that catches hold of a man by the scruff of his neck and transports him to a realm beyond the fear of death.”
Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“[T]here is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Perumbadavam Sreedharan
“ഓർത്തു നോക്കുമ്പോൾ എന്റെ കാര്യം മഹാകഷ്ടമാണ്.ദരിദ്രനും നിസ്സഹായനും പരാജിതനും ആർക്കും വേണ്ടാത്തവനുമായി ഞാനീ ജന്മം മുഴുവൻ കഴിയണമെന്നാണോ ദൈവം വിചാരിക്കുന്നത്? നിസ്സഹായനായ ഒരു മനുഷ്യൻ ജീവിതത്തിൽ ഇത്രയൊക്കെ സഹിക്കേണ്ടി വരുന്നതിന്റെ യുക്തിയെന്താണ്? എവിടെയും പരാജയപ്പെടുകയാണ് എന്റെ അനുഭവം. ഒടുവിൽ ഹൃദയത്തിൽ മുറിവുകൾ മാത്രം ബാക്കിയാകുന്നു. നന്മകൾ മാത്രമുള്ള ഒരാൾ ഇന്നേക്കാലം തോറ്റു പോവുകയേ ഉള്ളെന്നാണോ? നന്മകൾ മാത്രമുള്ള ഒരാൾ എന്ന് ഞാനെന്നേപ്പറ്റി പറയുമ്പോൾ അതിരു കടന്ന അവകാശവാദമാണെന്ന് അങ്ങു കരുതുന്നുണ്ടോ? തിന്മ ചെയ്യാൻ മനുഷ്യനെ പ്രേരിപ്പിക്കുന്നതാരാണ്? ലോകം കുറേക്കൂടി നന്നായി സൃഷ്ടിക്കാമായിരുന്നു എന്ന് സത്യത്തിൽ ഇപ്പോൾ അങ്ങേയ്ക്കു തോന്നുന്നില്ലേ? മനുഷ്യൻ തിന്മ ചെയ്യുന്നുണ്ടെങ്കിൽ അതിന്റെ കാരണത്തിൽ നിന്നും ഉത്തരവാദത്തിൽ നിന്നും ഒഴിഞ്ഞുമാറുവാൻ അങ്ങേയ്ക്കു കഴിയുമോ? മനുഷ്യനിൽ ആ ദൗർബല്യങ്ങൾ വെച്ചതാരാണ്?”
Perumbadavam Sreedharan, ഒരു സങ്കീര്‍ത്തനം പോലെ [Oru Sangeerthanam Pole]

Ernest Hemingway
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Arthur C. Clarke
“The world’s now placid, featureless, and culturally dead: nothing really new has been created since the Overlords came. The reason’s obvious. There’s nothing left to struggle for, and there are too many distractions and entertainments. Do you realize that every day something like five hundred hours of radio and TV pour out over the various channels? If you went without sleep and did nothing else, you could follow less than a twentieth of the entertainment that’s available at the turn of a switch! No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges—absorbing but never creating. Did you know that the average viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won’t be living their own lives any more. It will be a full-time job keeping up with the various family serials on TV!”
Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End

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