"Pretense cannot sustain blind power."

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“To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.”

“I imagined I was God for a millisecond and became speechless for a long time.”

“Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.”

“I can see myself before myself—a being through dark scenery.”

“Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.”

“Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Pub culture does not suit our country and hence we should try to control it. We should not sell our tourism on pub culture."

— Shripad Yasso Naik

Politics1952

#power

". . . you would be well advised to practice extreme discrimination on what filters through to that area of the brain that requires belief. Some or the more lucid, literate and better-educated folks wi…"

— Kenny Young

Music1941–2020

#Human Nature

"While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and impiou…"

— John Adams

Politics1947

#justice

"I believe nothing. I have shut myself away from the rocks and wisdoms of ages, and from the so-called great teachers of all time, and perhaps because of that isolation I am given to bizarre hospitalit…"

— Charles Fort

Literature1874–1932

#freedom