by Amitav Ghosh
"But he knew that the clarity of that image i his mind was merely the seductive clarity of ignorance; an illusion of knowledge created by a deceptive weight of remembered detail"
"I could think of no answer, except that it is because that state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings- the idea of justice. It is only because love is so profoundly the enemy of justice that our minds, shrinking in horror from its true nature, try to tame it by uniting it with its opposite...if we apply all the metaphors of normality, we shall, in the end, be able to approximate that state of metaphorically."
"We did not know whether we were going home or not. The streets had turned themselves inside out: our city had turned against us."
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