I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone which would not have happened if I had not come.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.
To be born again, first you have to die.
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
No, that is where you are wrong. The story of the devil’s possession of little children is not a lesser story. It is the greater story.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas — uncertainty, progress, change — into crimes.
The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.
Man is the creature who refuses to be what he is.
Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!
People tend to forget that the word ‘history’ contains ‘story’.
Language is migrant. Words move from language to language, from culture to culture, from mouth to mouth. Our bodies are migrants; cells and bacteria are migrants too. Even galaxies migrate.
It’s easy to see things in black and white. It’s harder to see shades of gray, but it’s the shades of gray that make things interesting.
Salman Rushdie’s Powerful Quotes from The Satanic Verses part 2
When thought becomes a crime, ideas become black market items.
Nothing is free. Even the birds who fly in the sky have to pay with their wings.
I am thinking of a language in which the word for city also means civilization.
When you stand beside the river, you realize that you are constantly on the move.
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
In a world where faith is a crime, reason becomes the only sin.
The devil tempts us not with evil, but with the promise of power.
The truth is a thing of shadow. It is in the darkness that it can best be seen.
The greatest acts of rebellion are often the ones that go unnoticed.
A story is a garden you carry in your pocket. The stories we tell ourselves are like seeds, waiting to be planted.
To be free is to choose your own chains, and to dance within them.
The question is not whether there is life after death. The question is whether there is life before death.
There are no monuments dedicated to cowards. For courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
The devil lives in the mirror, not in the shadows.
We are all stories, in the end.
Art is the weapon we use to fight against the darkness.
To fight for truth is to fight against the darkness.
Faith is not the absence of doubt, but the courage to embrace it.
We are the sum of our battles, our triumphs, and our losses.
The most dangerous weapons are not the ones made of steel and gunpowder, but the ones forged in ignorance and fear.
When the devil knocks at your door, invite him in for tea. Then, slowly, poison him.
The only way to defeat a monster is to understand it.
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
In a world of darkness, even the tiniest light can shine like a star.
It is always darkest before the dawn. But the dawn is coming.
The devil is in the details, but so is the beauty.
To believe in the devil is to give him power over you. To understand him is to take that power back.
Evil will always find a way, but so will goodness.
A story is the most powerful weapon in the world. It can create, it can destroy, and it can change everything.
The devil is not a person; it is a force that exists within us all.
Every story has two sides, but it is up to us to decide which side to believe.
To be free is to write your own story, to create your own reality.
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