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“Over-attachment for one’s close relatives is simply born of ignorance. Every creature in the world is born alone and dies alone. He experiences the results of his own good and evil deeds and in the end leaves the present body to accept another. The belief that one person is the relation of another is nothing more than illusion.”
― Mahabharata
― Mahabharata
“I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.”
― Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
― Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
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“Those unacquainted with any language but their own are generally very exclusive in matters of taste.”
― The Mahābhārata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
― The Mahābhārata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
“What is the greatest wonder in the world?
That, every single day, people die,
Yet the living think they are immortal.”
― Mahabharata
That, every single day, people die,
Yet the living think they are immortal.”
― Mahabharata
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