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The Present Minds

Visual Quotes

A cinematic collection for the overstimulated mind.

Lines lifted from the archive and given room, atmosphere, and visual weight - made to slow the scroll and stay in memory.

89 quotes 8 pages Curated archive
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Both of them got exactly what they wanted. Neither of them got what they paid for.
From A Horse and Two Goats by RK Narayan: the funniest sad story ever written Read article
Psychology
Some friendships do not need a common language. They need a common love.
From Kabuliwala by Rabindranath Tagore: the story about two fathers and one lost daughter Read article
Love
He crossed a thousand miles every year to be near a girl who made him remember the one he left behind.
From Kabuliwala by Rabindranath Tagore: the story about two fathers and one lost daughter Read article
Love
She had waited her whole life for that night. It lasted until dawn.
From The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant: the last line that changes everything Read article
Psychology
The carelessness of people who have enough is often indistinguishable from cruelty to people who do not.
From The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant: the last line that changes everything Read article
Psychology
He carried the axe the way some people carry their fathers. Long after they are gone.
From The Tiger in the Tunnel by Ruskin Bond: the story about what fathers leave behind Read article
Psychology
Sometimes the truth would cost more than either side can afford.
From An Astrologers Day by RK Narayan: the con man who told the truth Read article
Psychology
A man can become anything if he is running from something big enough.
From An Astrologers Day by RK Narayan: the con man who told the truth Read article
Psychology
She could not take the money. Taking it would have meant she agreed that this was how it ended.
From Tagore's The Postmaster: a story about being left behind Read article
Psychology
He felt like a fish dropped into a field. The water was somewhere else.
From Tagore's The Postmaster: a story about being left behind Read article
Identity
She took his family into her heart as if they had always been her own. She had no one else to put there.
From Tagore's The Postmaster: a story about being left behind Read article
Psychology
When the future you were promised becomes implausible in the country you grew up in, the map opens up.
From Why does everyone suddenly want to move abroad? Read article
Editorial