I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, a — Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, a — Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, a — Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, a — Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, a — Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
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I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity.

— Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
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