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‘The greatest tragedy,’ Bhima began, the very next evening after he had moved into Prithvi’s hostel room, ‘call it a crime even, is when those with power and privilege refuse to speak, to lend their voice to those who have no voice.’
“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
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“Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.”
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“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― Blindness
― Blindness
“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
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“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
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