"The Home and the World" Quotes
A tale of love, politics, and conflicting ideals in early 20th century Bengal.
fiction | 180 pages | Published in 2011
Quotes
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
My love, what is your responsibility? Only to love.
The fire in you is great, my friend. But how will you burn? On what fuel? Let me provide it.
He strikes no false note, there is no jarring in him. He is the greatest of artists.
Worship the self within you and all else will follow suit.
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay or turn aside.
Man should conquer his country, not hope to conquer the world outside.
She was like the morning, she had drenched the darkness with her light.
The world is the mirage of the divine imagination.
Time is consecrated, its curse is abolished, its service is perfect freedom.





