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It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

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Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.

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Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.

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Shashi Deshpande

Shashi Deshpande

Born: 1938 (age 87)
Bio: Shashi Deshpande , is an award-winning Indian novelist. She is the second daughter of famous Kannada dramatist and writer Sriranga. She was born in Karnataka and educated in Bombay and Bangalore. Deshpande has degrees in Economics and Law.
Known for:
  1. That long silence (1988)
  2. Dark Holds No Terrors (1980)
  3. The binding vine (1993)
  4. Small Remedies (2000)
  5. Roots and shadows (1973)

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