Arvind

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
― Jacques Derrida

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.”
― Nadine Gordimer