notes from Tagore’s Farewell My Friend

“…those whose names count in our literary market…their literary creations are like the camel in the animal world—neck and shoulders, belly and back, front and behind, uncouth and clumsy; and like the camel they shamble across the bleak desert of…literature with their loose, disjointed gait.”

Amit likens fashion to a mask and style to the charm of the face

“Amit , what you said was so true, you needn’t have said it all.”

“To be prepared for all possibilities is the way of civilization. Barbarism is always caught unawares.”

“Were I to smear the mirror of my mind with set convictions of my own, it would no longer reflect the shadow of each fleeting moment.”

“A confused mass of scattered impressions without a sense of unity to  link them up was responsible for a constant sense of restlessness and frustration in Amit.”

When we are prevented from loving someone who we might have, then such a person becomes for us an object, not of indifference, but the very opposite of love, blind hatred.”

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