Supriya Raghavendra

“[N]othing is so pleasing to perplexed unhappy people as the denunciation of others,”
― H.G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come

“Человек, умеющий обнимать - хороший человек

(A person who likes hugging - that's a good person)”
― Dostoevsky

“When reason, common sense, and decency are assaulted often enough, then personality is crippled, and human intelligence disintegrates or is warped. The barrier between truth and lies is effectively destroyed. . . . Schooled in such a climate, fearful and deprived of any intellectual initiative, Homo Sovieticus could never be more than a mouthpiece for the party’s ideas and slogans, not so much a human being then, as a receptacle to be emptied and filled as party policy dictated.”
― Frank Ellis

“His soul had loved to muse in secret on this desire. He had seen himself, a young and silent-mannered priest, entering a confessional swiftly, ascending the altarsteps, incensing, genuflecting, accomplishing the vague acts of the priesthood which pleased him by reason of their semblance of reality and of their distance from it.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man