AKALA

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history, Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster……The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

Milan Kundera

Cruelty is how cowards cry when they are not alone.

From Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

One of the reasons crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is
the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink
so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.
Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you with
them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying
for you.

From Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at
the right time, a kind of inspiration that is not much more than doing the
right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you
empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself ,
completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment.

From Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts