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"He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This business of worship, of the abnegation of self in the face of the Almighty, was a distraction, a false trail. Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow, clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path."
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"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."
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"Conquer hate with love and evil with goodness."
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"Morality is good when we use it to live our lives but not to hurt anyone."
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"In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange."
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"Act like you care. Pray like you care. Speak, smile, reach out, and live like you care. The point is to make sure those in your life know beyond doubt that you do care."
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"This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins."
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"If any morality or ethics does not include kindness as their fundamental ingredient, then they are just an absurdity."
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"Good and evil are both within us. And when our primitive ancestors humanized these natural qualities of the mind, they got two completely opposite supernatural characters. One was the merciful lord almighty and the other was the wicked devil."
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"Hand holding sword is always an ugly hand!"
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"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."
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"What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy."
Power
"This may be the curse of the human race, not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike."
Behavior
"We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities. We take pride in our short fuses. Our anger elevates, transcends."
Anger
"I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more."
Expression
"An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings."
Storytelling
"Sardar Harbans Singh passed away peacefully in a wicker rocking-chair in a Srinigar garden of spring flowers and honeybees with his favourite tartan rug across his knees and his beloved son, Yuvraj the exporter of handicrafts, by his side, and when he stopped breathing the bees stopped buzzing and the air silenced its whispers and Yuvraj understood that the story of the world he had known all his life was coming to an end, and that what followed would follow as it had to, but it would unquestionably be less graceful, less courteous and less civilized than what had gone."
Legacy
"I hate admitting that my enemies have a point."
Enemy
"I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk."
Discipline
"You are ass and I like class. I like diamonds, you are a glass. You brown mouse, I like black cats. You boy pussy but i like tom cats. Just because you got the dance, don't think you stand a fucking chance."
Attitude
"Mourn for the living, the dead have got their camphor gardens."
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