1. "Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near. The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart."
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Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
2. "Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence."
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Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
3. "In the moon thou sendest thy love letters to me," said the night to the sun. "I leave my answers in tears upon the grass."
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Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
4. "অসংখ্য অপরিচিত জ্যোতিষ্কের নিঃশব্দতা মাঝে মেলিনু নয়ন; জানিলাম একাকীর নাই ভয়, ভয় জনতার মাঝে; একাকীর কোনো লজ্জা নাই, লজ্জা শুধু যেথা সেথা যার তার চক্ষুর ইঙ্গিতে।"
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Rabindranath Tagore, প্রান্তিক
5. "Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises."
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Rabindranath Tagore, Chitra - A Play in One Act
6. "The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart."
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Rabindranath Tagore, Lover's Gift
7. "Travolti dal torrente dell'incertezza, i nostri sogni hanno teso le braccia Per afferrare la terra. In mattoni e pietra si irrigidiscono i loro sogni e così sono state costruite le città dell'uomo."
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Rabindranath Tagore, Lover's Gift
8. "The newer people, of this modern age, are more eager to amass than to realize."
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Rabindranath Tagore, The Cycle Of Spring
9. "The civilization of ancient Greece was nurtured within city walls. In fact, all the modern civilizations have their cradles of brick and mortar. These walls leave their mark deep in the minds of men. They set up a principle of "divide and rule" in our mental outlook, which begets in us a habit of securing all our conquests by fortifying them and separating them from one another. We divide nation and nation, knowledge and knowledge, man and nature. It breeds in us a strong suspicion of whatever is beyond the barriers we have built, and everything has to fight hard for its entrance into our recognition."
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Rabindranath Tagore, Sadhana: The Realisation of Life
10. "XXIX You have set me among those who are defeated. I know it is not for me to win, nor to leave the game. I shall plunge into the pool although but to sink to the bottom. I shall play the game of my undoing. I shall stake all I have and when I lose my last penny I shall stake myself, and then I think I shall have won through my utter defeat."
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Rabindranath Tagore, Fruit-Gathering