"Behind every door on every ordinary street, in……" — Vikram Seth
"Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave: so personal as to be almost incommunicable, so fugitive as to be almost irrecoverable."
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59 Quotes by Vikram Seth
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Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
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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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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
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And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of…
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My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy…
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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away,
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I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is…
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Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless…
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Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and…
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give…
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All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west,…
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Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
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