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“I know that the day will come when my sight of this earth shall be lost, and life will take its leave in silence, drawing the last curtain over my eyes.
Yet stars will watch at night, and morning rise as before, and hours heave like sea waves casting up pleasures and pains.
When I think of this end of my moments, the barrier of the moments breaks and I see by the light of death thy world with its careless treasures. Rare is its lowliest seat, rare is its meanest of lives.
Things that I longed for in vain and things that I got---let them pass. Let me but truly possess the things that I ever spurned and overlooked.”
― Gitanjali
Yet stars will watch at night, and morning rise as before, and hours heave like sea waves casting up pleasures and pains.
When I think of this end of my moments, the barrier of the moments breaks and I see by the light of death thy world with its careless treasures. Rare is its lowliest seat, rare is its meanest of lives.
Things that I longed for in vain and things that I got---let them pass. Let me but truly possess the things that I ever spurned and overlooked.”
― Gitanjali
“I am sore wounded but not slain
I will lay me down and bleed a while
And then rise up to fight again”
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I will lay me down and bleed a while
And then rise up to fight again”
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“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”
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“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”
― Père Goriot
― Père Goriot
“Until our mind is withdrawn from the varied distractions and agitations of worldly affairs, we cannot enter into the spirit of higher religious study.”
― The Upanishads
― The Upanishads
South Asian Literature
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