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But it was an unrefrigerated world. And everything ended badly.
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The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.
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Children don't make judgments about which details are important ... a child captures them all.
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But that was always the case. People hardly ever saw their children as they really were.
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When a culture vanishes, humanity is the loser.
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Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.
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Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure ...
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I almost forgot to tell you - you have the right to remain silent, but if you do, my boys at the station will process your bones to help you confess.
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He spent long hours meditating on the wisdom of loving living things which invariably ended up dead.
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When a culture vansihes, humanity is the loser.
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The lives of the poor are rich in symbols.
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It is not a question of crime and punishment it is problem and solution. — Rohinton Mistry
The human face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no room for crying.
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Time had changed the magical to mundane
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Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.
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Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
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The secret of survival was to balance hope and despair
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How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness
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Daughter-in-law is just a word. Call her anything you like. The hand of good fortune is not fussy about words.
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He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.
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He had learned that dignity could not be acquired from accoutrements and accessories; it cam unasked, it grew from one's ability to endure.
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Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus
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World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps
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Please do not bring female visitors of the opposite sex into rooms.
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Hell has ways of permeating heaven's membrane.
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Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.
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Flirting with madness is one thing. But when madness starts flirting back, its time to call the whole thing off.
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If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.
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If you ignore little things, they become big problems.
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Like trapped animals struggling to break free. What a curse was sickness in old age. This damned Parkinson's, cruel as torture.
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Time, the ultimate grandmaster that could never be checkmated. There was no way out of its distended belly.
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The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.
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Democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion
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Haunted by the unhappiness that appeared like an ugly creature to live in their home
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The face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.
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This was an outstanding family subject in our real life.
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A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in order to get the most out of it.
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Soon the evening gloom would materialize, infect the fibre-filled air, drape itself over her bed, depress her from now till morning.
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The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake
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The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.
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There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.
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Independence came at a high price: a debt with a payment schedule of hurt and regret.
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The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.
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Make up your mind, yaar, choose one thing.''How can I? I'm just a human being,' he replied — Rohinton Mistry
Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize ...
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So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different
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