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as a matter of fact, you stub your toes time and again against a peculiar obliqueness when you ask for definite information. You often find then that people are less concerned with your question that with deliberations about your possible motives or about how it would be possible to wriggle out of a tight corner without getting hurt. Overcrowding has surely much to do with the widespread and very characteristic defect in the Indian character, for only the art of deception can preserve the privacy of the individual in a crowd.

p524

What India can teach us "

...an Indian ...does not think at least not what we call "think". He rather perceives the thought. He resembles the primitive in this respect. I do not say that he is primitive but that the process of his thinking reminds me of the primitive way of thought production. The primitives reasoning is mainly an unconscious function, and he perceives its results. We should expect such a peculiarity in any [illegible] which has enjoyed an almost unbroken continuity from primitive times.

p527

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That is presumably the reason why India seems so dreamlike: one gets pushed back into the unconscious into that unredeemed, uncivilized, aboriginal world, of which we only dream, since our consciousness denies it.

p528

At ten man is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud and at fifty a criminal.

[illegible]

"...fine art eliminates what is transient and particulars and reveals the permanent and essential features of the orignial"

quoted in Art in Geometry by [illegible] p8 (note)

from S.H. Butchers Aristotles Theory of Poetry and Fine Arts Macmillan - 1902

Every artists strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal; and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.

E.E. Cummings