writer Quotes
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The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
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Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.
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That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.
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The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
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Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in.
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I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.
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Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: 'you don’t have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality.'