Surabhi

“I don't care much whether I ever get to know anything—but I want to work out something in figures—something that hasn't got to do with human beings. I don't want people particularly. In some ways, Henry, I'm a humbug—I mean, I'm not what you all take me for. I'm not domestic, or very practical or sensible, really. And if I could calculate things, and use a telescope, and have to work out figures, and know to a fraction where I was wrong, I should be perfectly happy,”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“पसे मर्ग मेरी मजार पर जो दिया किसी ने जला दिया। उसे आह! दामने बाद ने सरेशाम ही से बुझा दिया! इ”
― Jaishankar Prasad, कंकाल

“but what his family most resented, he reflected, was his wish for privacy. To dine alone, or to sit alone after dinner, was flat rebellion, to be fought with every weapon of underhand stealth or of open appeal.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“So,” went on Chichikov, “if no obstacle stands in the way, we might as well proceed to the completion of the purchase.” “What? Of the purchase of the dead souls?” “Of the ‘dead’ souls? Oh dear no! Let us write them down as LIVING ones, seeing that that is how they figure in the census returns.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls