Chitharanjan

“Thus narcissism is an obsession with “what this person, that event means to me.” This question about the personal relevance of other people and outside acts is posed so repetitively that a clear perception of those persons and events in themselves is obscured. This absorption in self, oddly enough, prevents gratification of self needs; it makes the person at the moment of attaining an end or connecting with another person feel that “this isn’t what I wanted.”
― Richard Sennett, The Fall of Public Man

“Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer. One orients one's attitude toward the world either by God or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Miscellaneous Writings

“What are you afraid of, mister, it won’t be so bad. You won’t die. Berlin’s a big place. Where thousands live, there’s room for one more.”
― Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz

“The Untouchables, in modern times, had won the useless right of being touched by the high caste, but they remained the poorest in the city.”
― Manu Joseph, Serious Men