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Rabindranath Tagore

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Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, philosopher, visual artist, playwright, composer, and novelist from India. He won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.


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Quotes

Here are a few random quotes by Rabindranath Tagore.

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Quote Left The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. Quote Right
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Quote Left Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. Quote Right
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Quote Left Death is not extinguishing the light
It is simply putting out the lamp
Because the dawn has come
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Quote Left We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do.  Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions.  If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank. Quote Right
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Quote Left The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Quote Right
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