Chitharanjan

“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

“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

“Reason is the slave of passion,”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“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