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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“எப்போதும் பகைவர்களிடம் மட்டும் கருணை காட்டாதீர்கள். நாம் காட்டும் கருணையிலிருந்து அதிகப் பலத்தைத் தேடிக்கொள்ளும் பகைவன் மீண்டும் நம்மை எதிர்கொள்ளும்போது நாம் தோல்வியுற நேரிடும். இதுதான் எங்கள் நியதி. தேவையானால் மிருகத்தை இந்த நியதியிலிருந்து விட்டு விடலாம். ஆனால் மனிதனுக்கு மட்டும் இரண்டாவதாக ஒரு வாய்ப்பினை அளித்து விடாதீர்கள்.

லட்சியக் குறியை நாம் கண்ணால் காண வேண்டும் என நினைக்க வேண்டாம், அதை மனத்தால் தான் காண வேண்டும்.

வீழ்ந்த இடத்திலேயே தீர்த்துக் கட்டுவது என்பதுதான் காட்டின் சட்டம். ஒரு அடிபட்ட மிருகம் தப்பித்துக் கொள்ளக் கூடாது.


நாகர் குலத்தலைவன் பீமனிடம் சொல்வது.”
― எம்.டி.வாசுதேவன் நாயர், தமிழில்: குறிஞ்சிவேலன்

“Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed—remember you can go anywhere.”
― Joanna Lumley

“It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work. ”
― William Faulkner

“You cannot embark on life, that one-off coach ride, once again when it is over,
but if you have a book in your hand, no matter how complex or difficult, when you have finished it, you can, if you wish, go back to the beginning, read it again, and thus understand that which is difficult and, with it, understand life as well.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The White Castle

“The ideal story should begin innocently like a fairy-tale, be frightening like a nightmare in the middle, and conclude sadly like a love story ending in separation.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The White Castle

“The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“Did you leave me because of me?" "No," she said. "I left you because of us.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard

“Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.”
― Walter Benjamin

“Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“Q- What makes you depressed?

Seeing stupid people happy.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“You're not human. You're a being who is incapable of social intercourse. You're nothing but a creature, non-human and somehow strangely pathetic.”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask

“Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at your from within and attacks the immune system. When you have hatred inside you, it always crushes you in the end.”
― Tahar Ben Jelloun, This Blinding Absence of Light

“The metaphysical mutation that gave rise to materialism and modern science in turn spawned two great trends: rationalism and individualism. Huxley’s mistake was in having poorly evaluated the balance of power between these two. Specifically, he underestimated the growth of individualism brought about by an increased consciousness of death. Individualism gives rise to freedom, the sense of self, the need to distinguish oneself and to be superior to others. A rational society like the one he describes in Brave New World can defuse the struggle. Economic rivalry—a metaphor for mastery over space—has no more reason to exist in a society of plenty, where the economy is strictly regulated. Sexual rivalry—a metaphor for mastery over time through reproduction—has no more reason to exist in a society where the connection between sex and procreation has been broken. But Huxley forgets about individualism. He doesn’t understand that sex, even stripped of its link with reproduction, still exists—not as a pleasure principle, but as a form of narcissistic differentiation. The same is true of the desire for wealth. Why has the Swedish model of social democracy never triumphed over liberalism? Why has it never been applied to sexual satisfaction? Because the metaphysical mutation brought about by modern science leads to individuation, vanity, malice and desire. Any philosopher, not just Buddhist or Christian, but any philosopher worthy of the name, knows that, in itself, desire—unlike pleasure—is a source of suffering, pain and hatred.”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time