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Stefan Zweig
“But is it not already an insult to call chess anything so narrow as a game? Is it not also a science, an art, hovering between these categories like Muhammad's coffin between heaven and earth, a unique yoking of opposites, ancient and yet eternally new, mechanically constituted and yet an activity of the imagination alone, limited to a fixed geometric area but unlimited in its permutations, constantly evolving and yet sterile, a cogitation producing nothing, a mathematics calculating nothing, an art without an artwork, an architecture without substance and yet demonstrably more durable in its essence and actual form than all books and works, the only game that belongs to all peoples and all eras, while no one knows what god put it on earth to deaden boredom, sharpen the mind, and fortify the spirit?”
Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

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

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

Perumbadavam Sreedharan
“ജീവിതം ഒരു ചൂതുകളിയാണ്. ചിലർ നേടുന്നു. ചിലർ നഷ്ടപ്പെടുന്നു. നോക്ക്, ഏതു ജീവിതത്തിലും സംഭവിക്കുന്നത് അതല്ലേ? ജീവിതത്തിന്റെ ദൂരം താണ്ടി ഒടുവിലത്തെ വഴിയമ്പലത്തിന്റെ തിണ്ണയിൽ ഒരു സന്ധ്യയ്ക്കു ചെന്നിരുന്ന് മനുഷ്യൻ കണക്കു നോക്കുന്നു. ജീവിതം നഷ്ടമോ ലാഭമോ? ആ അർത്ഥത്തിൽ ചിന്തിച്ചു നോക്കുമ്പോൾ ജീവിതം ഒരു ചൂതുകളിതന്നെയല്ലേ? അതിനകത്ത് ഭ്രാന്തുണ്ട്. അതിനകത്ത് ആനന്ദമൂർച്ഛയുണ്ട്. വാശിയുണ്ട്. പകയുണ്ട്. സ്നേഹമുണ്ട്. സഹതാപമുണ്ട്. വഞ്ചനയുണ്ട്. കെണികളുണ്ട്. വ്യാമോഹങ്ങളുണ്ട്. നിരാശയുണ്ട്. ശത്രുതയുണ്ട്. നാശമുണ്ട്. മരണമുണ്ട്. എന്താണില്ലാത്തത്? ജീവിതത്തിലുള്ളതു മുഴുവൻ ചൂതുകളിയിലുണ്ട്. ജീവിതത്തിലെന്നപോലെ ചൂതുകളിയിലും നമ്മൾ കണക്കു കൂട്ടുന്നു. സംഖ്യവച്ച് നമ്മൾ ചക്രം തിരിക്കുന്നു. സൂചി കറങ്ങി ഏതു കളത്തിൽ ചെന്നു നിൽക്കുന്നുവെന്നു ആർക്കറിയാം! അതു നിശ്ചയിക്കുന്നത് നമ്മളാണോ?”
Perumbadavam Sreedharan, ഒരു സങ്കീര്‍ത്തനം പോലെ [Oru Sangeerthanam Pole]

Leo Tolstoy
“Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.”
Leo Tolstoy, The Death Of Ivan Ilyich

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