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“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
― Anita Desai

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“We are individually multiple”
― Kabir Mohanty

“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.”
― Leila Aboulela, Minaret

“No story is ever told just once.”
― Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family

“So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

“I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.”
― Hanif Kureishi, Midnight all Day

“You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free.”
― Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
― John Lennon

“Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be”
― Marvin Gaye

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. ”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

“Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads”
― Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera : La Nueva Mestiza

“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.”
― Paul Klee

“Yet the past is ever with us and all that we are and that we have comes from the past. We are its products and we live immersed in it. Not to understand it and feel it as something living within us is not to understand the present. To combine it with the present and extend it to the future, to break from it where it cannot be so united, to make of all this the pulsating and vibrating material for thought and action—that is life.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India

“But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey?
Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
― Wole Soyinka

“Why, you are a man of heart!"
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days