Ashim Shanker Quotes

#1. The temporal heart resonates at whispers
From a Truth overarching
Of whose countenance
Timeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom

Ashim Shanker

#2. Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!

Ashim Shanker

#3. Etchings endure,
But not in Sand
Meanings Collide
To Unresolved Fragments
Codes fizzle to Static
They are not lost
But Unheard
Never lost
Fading slowly to Silence
By infinite degrees

Ashim Shanker

#4. Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in the process, etch within you the arcs of exceptional narrative.

Ashim Shanker

#5. The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.

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#6. All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy.

Ashim Shanker

#7. Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.

Ashim Shanker

#8. Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.

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#9. Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature - a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.

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#10. All high mathematics serves to do is to beget higher mathematics.

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#11. Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.

Ashim Shanker

#12. Comfort ... was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.

Ashim Shanker

#13. Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.

Ashim Shanker