Surabhi

“वे अब समझते थे—जगत् तो मिथ्या है ही, इसके जितने कर्म हैं, वे भी माया हैं। प्रमाता जीव भी प्रकृति है, क्योंकि वह भी अपरा प्रकृति है। जब विश्व मात्र प्राकृत है, तब इसमें अलौकिक अध्यात्म कहाँ। यही खेल यदि जगत् बनाने वाले का है, तो वह मुझे खेलना चाहिए।”
― Jaishankar Prasad, कंकाल

“He was amused and gratified to find that he had the power to annoy his oblivious, supercilious hostess, if he could not impress her; though he would have preferred to impress her. He”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“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

“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