"[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to……" — Amitav Ghosh
"[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. It is only because love is so profoundly the enemy of justice that our minds, shrinking in horor from its true nature, try to tame it by uniting it with its opposite [...] in the hope that if we apply all the metaphors of normality, that if we heap them high enough, we shall, in the end, be able to approximate that state metaphorically."
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Amitav Ghosh
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10 Quotes by Amitav Ghosh
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