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1 " No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children "
― , The Illicit Happiness of Other People
2 " At the heart of memory, is the stillness of time. "
3 " Men do things. We can't help it. That's all there is to it. As you will discover in time, the primary choice every man has to make is whether he wants to be himself or if he wants peace. "
4 " How unfortunate is the guy who does not live in the extravagant memory of an infatuated young woman. "
5 " It is a misfortune to be in the presence of a writer, even a failed writer, to be seen by him, be his passing study and remain in his corrupt memory. It is like the insult of a corpse on the road by a war photographer. "
6 " Strong people write bad stories. "
7 " And all our gods are not lies. They existed. All our gods, from the beginning of time, have been men with psychiatric conditions. And their delusions were so deep, they passed them on. "
8 " The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud. "
9 " The Boy will not be a failure. Mythili knows.She has seen the generations before.The boy will make it.As his father has said,he does not have the option of failure.He will crack atleast one entrance exam,and he will one day have a nice house in a suburb of San Francisco,or in a suburb of a suburb of San Francisco.He will find a cute Tamil Brahmin wife and make her produce two sweet children.He will drive a Toyota Corolla to work.And there,in the conference room of his office,he will tell his small team,with his hands stretched wide in a managerial way,'We must think out of the box "
10 " Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really "
11 " But then the fate of shy people is that all of their fears usually come true. "
12 " In this world, it is very hard to escape happiness.” – Unni Chacko "
13 " It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is the evidence that people are not as smart as dogs think they are.And he wants to see it time and again.In the fog of ambiguities and mysteries,he desperately searches for truths because truth usually shows humanity in a poor light "
14 " So what is truth, then ?’‘Truth is a successful delusion. "
15 " He stares at the open textbook for hours and is distracted by the pain of the parallelogram, which is slanted for ever. His nails scratch the page to straighten its tired limbs. It affects him, the great arrogance of the Equilateral Triangle, the failed aspiration of the octagon to be a circle, the eternal suffocation of the denominator that has to bear the weight of the unjust numerator, the loneliness of Pluto. And the smallness of Mercury, always a mere dot next to a yellow sun. In this world, there is no respect for Mercury. "
16 " If two people believe in the same idea of truth, it is a delusion. "
17 " He decayed in a state of gentle happiness. "
18 " My love, I feel terrible without you. It is like being with you. "
19 " The true nature of sorrow is boredom. "
20 " Fight, Thoma, put fight. "
