India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?