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Woman is the crowning excellence of God's creation, the shadow of the gods. Man the god's creation only. Woman is light, man is shadow.

— Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

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When a man is in doubt what to do, he goes wherever he happens to be first called.

Prose must be written in language that is well understood by its readers. The world would hardly miss those literary works that are mastered by only half-a-dozen pundits.

Flee even now-don’t you know that the tantrika’s worship consists of human flesh

[N]o study is likely to be fruitful of results if carried on without a system. The majority of those who pursue knowledge for its own sake pursue it after an aimless and desultory fashion.

The Study of Hindu Philosophy (1873)

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