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“The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.”
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“The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress.”
― Preface to Shakespeare
― Preface to Shakespeare
“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.”
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“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
“Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.”
― Gandhi: An Autobiography
― Gandhi: An Autobiography
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