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Quote:- The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas of literature - irrigated by a hundred rills and occasionally degenerating into a swamp. I do not wonder that the poets despise it, though they sometimes find themselves in it by accident. And I am not surprised at the annoyance of the historians when by accident it finds itself among them.
Author:- EM Forster
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The novel was born with the Modern Era, which made man, to quote Heidegger, the "only real subject," the ground for everything. It is largely through the novel that man as an individual was established on the European scene. Away from the novel, in our real lives, we know very little about our parents as they were before our birth; we have only fragmentary knowledge of the people close to us: we see them come and go and scarcely have they vanished than their place is taken over by others: they form a long line of replaceable beings. Only the novel separates out an individual, trains a light on his biography, his ideas, his feelings, makes him irreplaceable: makes him the center of everything.
Encounter
Author:- Milan Kundera
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal
Author:- Lady Murasaki Shikibu
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The number of times you fail only adds up to your strength.
Author:- Somya Kedia
Category:- motivational
Quote:- The number one question people ask writers is: Where do you get your ideas from? I've given up saying my imagination. Now I say I meet a person of restricted height named Eric in an alleyway once a month and hand him a brown envelope of cash, and he gives me the ideas. Then I tell him I'll see him the following month. People get excited when they hear this and say: 'Really???' And I say no. They hadn't noticed that I'd used my imagination again.
Author:- Stewart Stafford
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The numbers will never tell the full story of what life on Earth is all about.
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Author:- Hans Rosling
Category:- science
Quote:- The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.
Life of Pi
Author:- Yann Martel
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Author:- Daniel Quinn
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The Ocean of Love is awaiting our return - Let's help others while we play on the shore.
Author:- Bert McCoy
Category:- Love
Quote:- The Oceans are infinite and with the waves in spite of you.(Journal:Oceans) Reality.by
Author:- theamitkumarswords
Category:- hope
Quote:- The oceans, it turns out, are full of bone-eating worms
The Brilliant Abyss
Author:- Helen Scales
Category:- science
Quote:- The offender must be able to give something back. But criminals are most often poor people. They have nothing to give. The answers to this are many. It is correct that our prisons are by and large filled with poor people. We let the poor pay with the only commodity that is close to being equally distributed in society: time.
Limits to Pain: The Role of Punishment in Penal Policy
Author:- Nils Christie
Category:- time
Quote:- The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Author:- Christopher Hitchens
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.
Gone Girl
Author:- Gillian Flynn
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- The old and the dead are the most rewarding people to idolize, because they know things that we don't.
A Room Called Earth
Author:- Madeleine Ryan
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The old antiques dealer whispers to him that the secret of freedom and happiness lies in self-control and in a marriage between knowledge, will and power.
The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism
Author:- Tariq Ramadan
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The Old Hall loomed ahead, caught directly in the setting sunlight. For a brief moment, it was perfectly illuminated, as if lit by a thousand burning lanterns, glowing in some kind of mighty revelry. I am ancient, it murmured. I was powerful and grand. Now I am wise and beautiful.
A Vision in Smoke
Author:- Allyson S. Barkley
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The old lion is better bet than a young lamb.
Wealth of Words
Author:- Amit Kalantri
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph.
The Glass Bead Game
Author:- Hermann Hesse
Category:- philosophy