"I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!"

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“The death of our close friends and relatives proves that how close the death is to us!”

“Erasers remind us there is no faultless human.”

“We all laugh and cough with the same language and will die with the same language as well!”

“Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death.”

“Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and isolation! But now I do not mind it anymore and, instead, I work more and more in my self-made solitude!”

“Paper is my best friend and paper seller is my worst friend!”

Resonant Thoughts

"I have never been frightened of anything. Because I fought British tommies to save the honor of an Indian lady, Gandhiji called me abhay sadhak, a fearless seeker of truth. When the sweepers of Warora…"

— Baba Amte

Social Activism1914–2008

#life

"The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by th…"

— Benjamin Tucker

Business1881–1908

#life

"It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love."

— Arthur C. Clarke

Literature1917–2008

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"Youth is the leaven that keeps all these questioning, testing attitudes fermenting in the world. If it were not for this troublesome activity of youth, with its hatred of sophisms and glosses, its in…"

— Randolph Bourne

Science1886–1918

#life