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“All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
“Over the years I have felt that both the IAS and IPS have developed a kind of feudal class consciousness that does not go well with the service to the people that India needs. Their initial idealism begins to diminish within a few years of service and they gradually become part of the furniture.”
― Beyond The Lines: An Autobiography
― Beyond The Lines: An Autobiography
“The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very brilliant, they are always perfectly genuine”
― The Theory of Moral Sentiments
― The Theory of Moral Sentiments
“How concrete everything becomes in the world of the spirit when an object, a mere door, can give images of hesitation, temptation, desire, security, welcome and respect. If one were to give an account of all the doors one has closed and opened, of all the doors one would like to re-open, one would have to tell the story of one's entire life.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
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