"My eyes close. I am here and not……" — Vikram Seth
"My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?"
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59 Quotes by Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth has 59 quotes on this site.
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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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Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a…
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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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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of…
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In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and…
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
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Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families…
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