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Gopal Baratham

Moonrise, Sunset

  • b2622027157has quoted3 years ago
    soon as I set eyes on Vanita, I knew that the person I had been waiting for had arrived.
  • Hasyemi Rafsanjani Asyarihas quoted4 years ago
    We identify things not by what they look like but by where they are taking us. There is a world of difference between sunset and moonrise. Sunset leads into the darkness, moonrise into the glorious light of love.
  • Hasyemi Rafsanjani Asyarihas quoted4 years ago
    dum vivimus vivamus, ‘while we live let us enjoy life’
  • Hasyemi Rafsanjani Asyarihas quoted4 years ago
    she was also an Asian mother and, from time to time, badgered me about finding a girl and settling down.
  • Hasyemi Rafsanjani Asyarihas quoted4 years ago
    Cliché has it that a sorrow shared is a sorrow halved. I’m not at all sure that is the case but grief does bring us a little closer to each other.” He laughed and looked at me for encouragement. “Perhaps that’s really what’s meant by ‘absence makes the heart grow fonder’. We grow fonder of each other, not of the person that is missing.”
  • Hasyemi Rafsanjani Asyarihas quoted4 years ago
    Folk from Malay villages often end sentences with “lah”, which is a contraction of Allah.
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