History and Literature Enthusiast

Indian

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People are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, the possess a sort of immortality.

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He lost his usual sane view of human Intercourse, and felt that we exist not in ourselves, but in terms of each other's minds.

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A Passage to India

E.M. Forster

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"Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate."

"Indeed the coin that buys the exact truth has not yet been minted."

E.M. Forster

A Passage to India

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Peace🩶

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"As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it."

Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey

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I looked down at my shadow, moving silently beside me. We take our shadows for granted, don’t we? There they are, the uncomplaining companions of a lifetime, mute and helpless witnesses to our every act of commission or omission.

- Ruskin Bond

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Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.

- Penelope Featherington

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My curiosity is not satisfied, but it is quenched.

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Just an inch below its horrendous outer skin, lie the most profound and the most spiritually powerful mysteries and philosophies man has ever known. In that sense, it is quite like the universe in which we live - dark and cruel on its outside material crust, yet calm and immortal in its inner realm. The ancient city of Kashi was meant to represent this duality since the beginning of time. But only the gifted seeker could spot this fine Godly construct.

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Awed by her splendor

stars near the lovely

moon cover their own

bright faces

when she

is roundest and lights

earth with her silver

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To be unloved and unhappy -- how interesting that was. There is something beautiful, touching, and poetical about it when one loves and the other is indifferent.

- Anton Chekhov ( After The Theatre)

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Your writing is good, and in the whole letter I have not found one mistake in spelling. But one thing I don’t like: why do you style yourself “your worthless and insignificant brother”? You recognize your insignificance? ... Recognize it before God; perhaps, too, in the presence of beauty, intelligence, nature, but not before men. Among men you must be conscious of your dignity. Why, you are not a rascal, you are an honest man, aren’t you? Well, respect yourself as an honest man and know that an honest man is not something worthless. Don’t confound “being humble” with “recognizing one’s worthlessness.” ...

- Anton Chekhov ( a letter to his brother Mihail

TAGANROG, July 1, 1876.)

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I do love book dedications! 😍🦋

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Obsessed with this kind of videos 🦋❤

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stained glass window. (via)