Zareen

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.”
― Erol Ozan

“A man listening to a story is in the company of the storyteller; even a man reading one shares this companionship. The reader of a novel, however, is isolated, more so than any other reader(For even the reader of a poem is ready to utter the words, for the benefit of the listener.) In this solitude of his, the reader of
a novel seizes upon his material more jealously than anyone else. He is ready to make it completely his own, to devour it, as it were. Indeed, he destroys, he swallows up the material as the fire devours logs in the fireplace. The suspense which permeates the novel is
very much like the draft which stimulates the flame in the fireplace and enlivens its play.”
― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

“In retrospect, though many were guilty, none was innocent.”
― A.J.P. Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War