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"Though we may be weak and erring mortals, living a brief life and uncertain span of life yet there is something of the stuff of the immortal gods in us." CH 10 : Ahmadnagar Fort Again

"Karma is a powerful factor in shaping the individual and the nation, and nationalism itself is a shadow of it with all its good and bad memories of the past." CH 10 : Ahmadnagar Fort Again

"For we are very old, and trackless centuries whisper in our ears; yet we have known how to regain our youth again & again, though the memory & dreams of those past ages endure with us." CH 5 : Through The Ages

"How are we to consider the scripture of various religions, much of it believed by its votaries to be revealed scripture? To analyse it and criticise it and look upon it as human document is often to offend the true believers. Yet there is no other way to consider it." CH 4 : Page73

"She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought & reverie had been inscribed, and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously." - CH 3: The Quest