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“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important.”
― James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin

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“Do you believe in magic?," she asked. "I believe in you," he said. "And you're the closest thing to magic that I've found.”
― J.M. Green

tags: love, magic

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“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

tags: feminism

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“आसान नहीं था इस तरह अपनी जड़ें छोड़ कर चल देना। और उस पर ये भी पता नहीं था। कहाँ और कैसे बीजे जायेंगे। बीजे जायेंगे भी या नहीं। पेड़ से टूटी शाख़ों को अक्सर देखा था, धूप में सूखते, टूटते और फिर गर्द में रुल जाते ! !”
― Gulzar, दो लोग [Do Log]

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“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: insightful, lonely, thought-provoking

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