But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.