“Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.' He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else's language, even if it's just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, 'I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. I see you as a human being”
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.”
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
“When you married someone, you promised to love every person he would be. He promised to love every person she had been. And here they were, still trying, even though the past and the future were both mysteries.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense",”
― Metamorphosis
― Metamorphosis
“Comfort can be dangerous. Comfort provides a floor but also a ceiling.”
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Subodh’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Subodh’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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