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  1. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Palace of Illusions

    This is the nature of sorrow; often it fades with time, but once in a while it remains lodged below the surface of things, a stubborn thorn beneath a fingernail, making itself felt every time you brush against it. {How well I knew this, for random events would startle me into the memory of a pair of ancient eyes.}
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  2. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Palace of Illusions

    I saw that this was how we would live out the next decades, dragging ourselves from one expected action to the next, hoping by meticulous duty to bring each other some small measure of happiness. But the comfort that duty offers is lukewarm at best. Happiness, like a mischievous bird that hops from branch to branch, would continue to elude us.
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  3. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Palace of Illusions

    What is more numerous than the grass? The thoughts that rise in the mind of man. Who is truly wealthy? That man to whom the agreeable and disagreeable, wealth and woe, past and future, are the same. What is the most wondrous thing on earth? Each day countless humans enter the Temple of Death, yet the ones left behind continue to live as though they were immortal.
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  4. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Palace of Illusions

    his love was totally different from every other love in my life. Unlike them, it didn't expect me to behave in a certain way. It didn't change into displeasure or anger or even hatred if I didn't comply. It healed me.
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  5. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Palace of Illusions

    sometimes one has to drop logic and go with the instinct of the heart, even if it contradicts law.
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  6. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Palace of Illusions

    The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him- into the very earth and air and water-until there's nothing else."
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  7. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Palace of Illusions

    It's a rare man-and an even rarer ruler-that can remain untouched by jealousy in the face of a peer's sudden prosperity.
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  8. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Palace of Illusions

    mother?" Yudhisthir asked. "Haven't our scriptures
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  9. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Palace of Illusions

    the confidence of the untested.
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  10. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Palace of Illusions

    She taught me to close myself off from the sorrow of others so that I might survive
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  11. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Palace of Illusions

    Drupad was mystified. He'd had little to do with the Kaurava clan, whose kingdom lay to the northwest, in Hastinapur. From what he'd heard, their blind ruler, Dhritarashtra, was a quiet, careful man.
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  12. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Palace of Illusions

    Early in my life, I learned to eavesdrop. I was driven to this ignoble practice because people seldom told me anything worth knowing.
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