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“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“But the law is not an instrument to find out truth. It is there to create a fiction that will help us move past atrocious act and face our future. It seems there is no mercy in this world, but a kind of haphazard justice: men pay for crimes, but not necessarily their own.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“But if you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“This is what life does for you in the end; it arranges a fight you can't win.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
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A community to share the nostalgia and fragrance of the evergreen 'Kolkata Book Fair' The Kolkata Book Fair (Old name: Calcutta Book Fair in English, ...more
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