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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

Vikram Seth

I don’t think anyone should be banned. If you don’t like a book, set it aside.
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Book Myself Thinking
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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Difference Let Go Life Love Myself Relationship
Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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Fate Late Time Yourself
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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Love Philosophy Rough
It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
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Evil Fear God Heart Need Start
You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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Inspirational Motivational Yourself
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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God Life Man Partner
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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Future Material Nostalgia Time World
In life’s brief game to be a winner A man must have; oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
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Game Life Love Man Winner
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader’s experience. If it’s a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it’s a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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Elegant Experience Face Poetry Reading Sad Story Thinking
The past is the past, and he can’t make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
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Change Damage Hope Past
And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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Equation Ink Writing
Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
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Greatness Mesmerize Need
To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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Hard Time Heart Broken Life Love Yourself
I don’t think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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Enough Live Myself People Talk Thinking
And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
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Friendship Myself Patience Privacy Process Reading Room

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