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Jhumpa Lahiri Quote: “Without saying a word to each other we know that, if we chose to, we could venture into something reckless, also pointless.”

201. “Without saying a word to each other we know that, if we chose to, we could venture into something reckless, also pointless.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri Quote: “Whenever he is discouraged, I tell him that if I can survive on three continents, then there is no obstacle he cannot conquer.”

202. “Whenever he is discouraged, I tell him that if I can survive on three continents, then there is no obstacle he cannot conquer.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri Quote: “He was a hermit; true peace, for him, meant staying indoors, staying put in a familiar place.”

203. “He was a hermit; true peace, for him, meant staying indoors, staying put in a familiar place.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri Quote: “It has been said by many that the risk, for the author who self-translates, is to rewrite more than translate, given that there are no rules to obey when the only authority is oneself. What is the meaning of obedience, of faithfulness, when the other does not exist. 57.”

204. “It has been said by many that the risk, for the author who self-translates, is to rewrite more than translate, given that there are no rules to obey when the only authority is oneself. What is the meaning of obedience, of faithfulness, when the other does not exist. 57.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri Quote: “After I look at her I look at myself in the mirror, and yet again I resign myself to the fact that my face has always disappointed me. Every look in the mirror dismays me, that’s the reason I tend to avoid them.”

205. “After I look at her I look at myself in the mirror, and yet again I resign myself to the fact that my face has always disappointed me. Every look in the mirror dismays me, that’s the reason I tend to avoid them.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri Quote: “Even those family members who continue to live seem dead somehow, always invisible, impossible to touch.”

206. “Even those family members who continue to live seem dead somehow, always invisible, impossible to touch.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri Quote: “A final image: Udayan standing beside her on the balcony in North Calcutta. Looking down at the street with her, getting to know her. Leaning forward, just inches between them, the future spread before them. The moment her life had begun a second time.”

207. “A final image: Udayan standing beside her on the balcony in North Calcutta. Looking down at the street with her, getting to know her. Leaning forward, just inches between them, the future spread before them. The moment her life had begun a second time.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri Quote: “Each revelation was devastating. Everything she said. And yet, even as my life shattered in pieces, I felt as if I were finally coming up for air.”

208. “Each revelation was devastating. Everything she said. And yet, even as my life shattered in pieces, I felt as if I were finally coming up for air.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri Quote: “I pack a bag and catch a train from the central station. I stare up at all the destinations one might go, listed on the big board, and I think of all the places I might still visit, and how arbitrary one’s own path is.”

209. “I pack a bag and catch a train from the central station. I stare up at all the destinations one might go, listed on the big board, and I think of all the places I might still visit, and how arbitrary one’s own path is.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri Quote: “Translation will open up entire realms of possibilities, unforeseen pathways that will newly guide and inspire the writer’s work, and possibly even transform it. For to translate is to look into a mirror and see someone other than oneself.”

210. “Translation will open up entire realms of possibilities, unforeseen pathways that will newly guide and inspire the writer’s work, and possibly even transform it. For to translate is to look into a mirror and see someone other than oneself.”

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211. “I grow sad looking at all those brand-new suitcases, all of them empty, waiting for a traveler, waiting for various things to fill them, waiting for someplace to go.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri Quote: “It’s strange to feel married, in the end, more to a place than to a person. I hope to die here and nowhere else.”

212. “It’s strange to feel married, in the end, more to a place than to a person. I hope to die here and nowhere else.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri Quote: “We write books in a fixed moment in time, in a specific phase of our consciousness and development. That is why reading words written years ago feels alienating. You are no longer the person whose existence depended on the production of those words.”

213. “We write books in a fixed moment in time, in a specific phase of our consciousness and development. That is why reading words written years ago feels alienating. You are no longer the person whose existence depended on the production of those words.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri Quote: “But it’s not just my eyes that suffer at dawn, it’s my heart that breaks. I feel the light that blazes across the city, striking my face but also warming my marrow, and as it rises I continue to look at my neighbors’ laundry, threadbare and bone-dry. Then I close my eyes so that I see the light through my eyelids, and I regret being typically sluggish and missing out on this extraordinary, everyday phenomenon.”

214. “But it’s not just my eyes that suffer at dawn, it’s my heart that breaks. I feel the light that blazes across the city, striking my face but also warming my marrow, and as it rises I continue to look at my neighbors’ laundry, threadbare and bone-dry. Then I close my eyes so that I see the light through my eyelids, and I regret being typically sluggish and missing out on this extraordinary, everyday phenomenon.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri Quote: “Distances help, as does changing one’s perspective on a regular basis – they make the end of a long marriage easier to bear, they lighten the load of an unhappy childhood and an adolescence spent under a rock and the fear of having ruined nearly everything.”

215. “Distances help, as does changing one’s perspective on a regular basis – they make the end of a long marriage easier to bear, they lighten the load of an unhappy childhood and an adolescence spent under a rock and the fear of having ruined nearly everything.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri Quote: “Our deepest memories are like infinite roots reflected in the brook, a simulacrum without end. And yet every story, like every life, lasts only so long.”

216. “Our deepest memories are like infinite roots reflected in the brook, a simulacrum without end. And yet every story, like every life, lasts only so long.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri Quote: “There’s no point discussing it given that she’s blind to the small pleasures my solitude affords me. In spite of how she’s clung to me over the years my point of view doesn’t interest her, and this gulf between us has taught me what solitude really means.”

217. “There’s no point discussing it given that she’s blind to the small pleasures my solitude affords me. In spite of how she’s clung to me over the years my point of view doesn’t interest her, and this gulf between us has taught me what solitude really means.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri Quote: “Containers may be the destiny of many in that they hold our remains after death. But this novel reminds us that narrative refuses to stay put, and that the effort of telling stories only pins things down so far. In the end it is language itself that is the most problematic container; it holds too much and too little at the same time.”

218. “Containers may be the destiny of many in that they hold our remains after death. But this novel reminds us that narrative refuses to stay put, and that the effort of telling stories only pins things down so far. In the end it is language itself that is the most problematic container; it holds too much and too little at the same time.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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