Stories from Tagore
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When we were young, we understood all sweet things; and we could detect the sweets of a fairy story by an unerring science of our own. We never cared for such useless things as knowledge. We only cared for truth.
child's faith never admits defeat, and it would snatch at the mantle of death itself to turn him back.
She was silent and companionless as noontide.
Like a rudderless boat, the discussion kept turning round and round the same
She never had the opportunity, which a woman usually has, of keeping her fierceness hidden and of softening the keen edge of her words,—maintaining a dignified reserve towards men such as is proper for a woman.
The advantage of harbouring such a conviction was that it needed no proof in practice. Vanity is not like a horse or an elephant requiring expensive fodder.
when a man is young, stupidity appears to him the worst of crimes.
when the gods withhold their boons from mortals they still expect their worshippers to pay them fervent honour and are angry if it is withheld.
