“Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.”
― Swami Vivekananda: The Monk and The Reformer: What Swami Vivekananda Did, What Swami Vivekananda Said
― Swami Vivekananda: The Monk and The Reformer: What Swami Vivekananda Did, What Swami Vivekananda Said
“Exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow--misery.”
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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