“Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature—a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.” — Ashim Shanker Beauty Copy Share Image
“Each form is inadequate, like a graft to be rejected by its intractable and unrelenting host and thus can only serve a… — Ashim Shanker Ephemerality Copy Share Image
“He had given himself over to endless wanderings, a life of migration from life-to-life, albeit not necessarily a set of migrations one… — Ashim Shanker Ashim-shanker Copy Share Image
“Let us, thusly, embrace the assumption that to each advocate of a respective paradigm within his respective bubble, the phenomenological gaps between… — Ashim Shanker Confirmation-bias Copy Share Image
“At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands… — Ashim Shanker Ashim-shanker Copy Share Image
“Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed.” — Ashim Shanker Ashim-shanker Copy Share Image
“Hyperbolic Suggestion is—as one might infer from the term’s literal interpretation—a method of suggestion induced upon the subject (or subjects), in question,… — Ashim Shanker Different approach Copy Share Image
“Sound waves, regardless of their frequency or intensity, can only be detected by the Mole Fly’s acute sense of smell—it is a… — Ashim Shanker Auditory Copy Share Image
“Here in Alpha City, we have a common saying: “What we call ‘sky’ is merely a figment of our narrative.” The most… — Ashim Shanker Absurdism Copy Share Image
“Doubt has become the veritable wellspring of my creative process and my philosophic explorations. It has equipped me with the temerity and… — Ashim Shanker Arrogance Copy Share Image
“A bracing wind swirls about the boy and alights gently upon his shoulder to gape frightfully at droplets of fate joined infirmly… — Ashim Shanker Atmospheric Copy Share Image
“Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!” — Ashim Shanker Idealization-of-the-past Copy Share Image
“The passage that he had found in the book had been riddled with ambiguities and contradictions only reserved for those most valiant… — Ashim Shanker Ambiguities Copy Share Image
“But what is identity really? What is it to ‘belong’ when we cast ourselves in the mold of a social group? I… — Ashim Shanker Belonging Copy Share Image
“Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.” — Ashim Shanker Creativity Copy Share Image
“Bunnu was no amateur when it came to escape. And even in his drowsiest moments, he understood implicitly that to forget his… — Ashim Shanker Closest friends Copy Share Image
“Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.” — Ashim Shanker Authority Copy Share Image
“Etchings endure, But not in Sand Meanings Collide To Unresolved Fragments Codes fizzle to Static They are not lost But Unheard Never… — Ashim Shanker Ephemerality Copy Share Image
“Their quarry had been cornered in his defenses and their bloodlust was such that they were likely to pay top Julep to… — Ashim Shanker Bloodlust Copy Share Image
“His hatred for all was so intense that it should extinguish the very love from which it was conceived. And thus, he… — Ashim Shanker Absurdist-fiction Copy Share Image
“Human freedom brings with it the burden of choice and of its consequences. As humankind is akin to claim for its own… — Ashim Shanker Burden-of-choice Copy Share Image
“It would be both foolish and cumbersome to continue our everyday existences in bliss without first denying to ourselves, for the sake… — Ashim Shanker Brutality Copy Share Image
“There will be times in which things appear hopeless. You will begin to doubt everything around you. You will even begin to… — Ashim Shanker Ashim-shanker Copy Share Image
“Comfort...was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.” — Ashim Shanker Apathy Copy Share Image
“He may actually have been existing in the past and approximating a conceivable future, which brought even the assumption of his immediate… — Ashim Shanker Doubt Copy Share Image
