निठल्ले की डायरी – हरिशंकर परसाई | निठल्ले – निठल्ले में फ़र्क है!
जब तक पुरुष नारी को यह ना बता दे कि मैं जंगली जानवर भी हूँ, तब तक वह समझता है कि मेरी पूरी शख्सियत नहीं उभरी।
Letters To Felice | Franz Kafka
पढ़ने के बाद ऐसा लगा कि मुझसे कुछ छीन लिया गया है। कुछ बेहद निजी। इतने दिनों से कोई था जो साथ था और वो एक दम से किसी ने छीन लिया है या बिना बताए चला गया है। इतना खाली, इतना दुख हुआ कि बहुत देर हाथों को देखता रहा। इतनी निजी बातें पढ़ने का guilt, फिर अंत में कुछ भी हाथ ना आने का अहसास, और उसके बाद इतना कुछ मिल गया का सुख – और इन सबके बाद भी – इतना human कुछ पढ़ने की झुरझुरी अभी भी शरीर पर महसूस हो रही है। कितना कुछ लिखा जा सकता है इस बारे में पर हमारे शब्द कितने झूठे है। हमारा कुछ लिखना, एक भी शब्द कितना थोथला है और ये लिखते लिखते – ये कितना निरर्थक है। कितना झूठ है मेरा खुद को देखना इसके comparison में।
Aphorisms by Kafka | Truth Bombs!
From a certain point on, there is no more turning back. That is the point that must be reached. Franz Kafka (Aphorisms) मुझे बहुत पसंद है जब मैं सुबह उठुं और कुछ भी करने से पहले मेरे मन में हो कि यार वो किताब complete करनी है। जो किताबें बांध कर रख पाएं – उनका…
The Old Man And The Sea | पतझड़ में बसंत!
“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
Kafka’s Abandoned Fragment’s Quotes
We construct quite useless war machines, towers, walls, curtains of silk, and we might wonder a lot about that if we had the time. And remain suspended in the air, we don’t fall, we flutter, even though we’re uglier than bats. And now hardly anyone can prevent us from saying on a beautiful day: ‘Oh Lord, it’s a beautiful day today.’ For already we are settled in on this earth, and we live on the basis of our consent.
The Castle | Have We Reached There, Yet!
They say he looks completely different when he comes into the village and different when he leaves it, different before he has had a beer, different afterward, different awake, different asleep, different alone, different in a conversation, and, quite understandably after all this, almost utterly different up there at the Castle.
Amerika | Freedom & Theatricality
Of course, they made rapid progress, not by running but by exerting themselves to the utmost, and in reality, they may have been only crawling along.
Other Colours | Culture, Politics, Books, Literature, Life & Other Things
When we are attached to a writer, it is not just because he ushered us into a world that continues to haunt us, but because he has in some measure made us who we are.
The Color Purple | Shocking & Powerful
People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
Sapiens: Questions, Answers & Us
We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor inevitable and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we imagine.