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“Philosophy starts nowhere else but with wondering.”
― Plato, Theaetetus

“It must be the worst kind of suffering – cognizance of one’s own collapse, the penance of watching as things slip away.”
― Avni Doshi, Girl in White Cotton

“Reality is something that is co-authored,’ the woman says. ‘It makes sense that you would begin to find this disturbing. When someone says that something is not what you think of it as, it can cause slight tremors in the brain, variations in brain activity, and subconscious doubts begin to emerge. Why do you think people experience spiritual awakenings? It’s because the people around us are engaged. The frenzy is a charge that’s contagious.’ ‘Are you saying my mother is contagious?’ ‘No, I’m not. Though maybe I am, in a sense. We actively make memories, you know. And we make them together. We remake memories, too, in the image of what other people remember.’ ‘The doctor says my mother has become unreliable.’ ‘We are all unreliable. The past seems to have a vigour that the present does not.”
― Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar

“immigrants are artists because they create a life, a future, from nothing but a dream.”
― Reyna Grande, A Dream Called Home