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“Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers.
And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.”
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And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.”
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“For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“A line is a fuse
that's lit.
The line smolders,
the rhyme explodes—
and by a stanza
a city
is blown to bits.”
―
that's lit.
The line smolders,
the rhyme explodes—
and by a stanza
a city
is blown to bits.”
―
“It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that?”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
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This group aims at bringing all the Keralites/Malayalis together and discussing the common interest which made us a part of this site--BOOKS.So join t ...more
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