Of course, the greater one’s need, the greater one’s propensity to be mesmerized.
VIKRAM SETHGod save us from people who mean well.
More Vikram Seth Quotes
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Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
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God save us from people who mean well.
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What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
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And an equation is the same whether it’s written in red or green ink.
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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above– Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
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I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
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Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Man without life companion is either god or beast.
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You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
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Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
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