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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― Man and Superman
― Man and Superman
“If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism.”
― How to Read Literature
― How to Read Literature
“The army is the only order of men sufficiently united to concur in the same sentiments, and powerful enough to impose them on the rest of their fellow-citizens; but the temper of soldiers, habituated at once to violence and to slavery, renders them very unfit guardians of a legal, or even a civil constitution.”
― The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
― The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
South Asian Literature
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For readers around the world interested in literature from or about South Asia! Countries of interest include India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhut ...more
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