Exit West
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He had, as he often did, an amused expression in his bright eyes, not mocking, but as though he saw the humour in things, and this in turn amused her and made her warm to him.
“नहीं, मेरे जीवन की कोई बात गुप्त नहीं है। गुप्त वे बातें रखी जाती हैं, जो अनुचित होती हैं। गुप्त रखना भय का द्योतक है, और भयभीत होना मनुष्य के अपराधी होने का द्योतक है। मैं जो करता हूँ, उसे उचित समझता हूँ, इसलिए उसे कभी गुप्त नहीं रखता।”
― चित्रलेखा
― चित्रलेखा
“Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause,
But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.”
― The Merchant of Venice
But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.”
― The Merchant of Venice
“And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without BREAD, and it only cannot live without beauty. . . . Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
(1872)”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
Fyodor Dostoevsky
(1872)”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“The Count’s assertion had seemed so axiomatic that he had not prepared an elaboration.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing oneself to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with others, would feel he was losing himself, and from which, therefore, he will always shrink as long as he is in his right mind.… That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when one writes, why even night is not night enough.”
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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