Title: Living or Dead?
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Type: Short Story
Collection: Popular Short Stories
Characters: Kadambini, Jogmaya, Sripati
If you haven’t read the story Living or Dead? by Rabindranath Tagore yet, this may be a spoiler for you.
So,
Here are the
quotes and dialogues I liked most from the story,
“Love cannot
prove its claim by any document which society accepts, and does not wish to
prove it; it merely worships with double passion its life’s uncertain
treasure.”
“No one was
likely to question this, since a dead body is not such a valuable property that
anyone would steal it.”
“She was no
member of earthly society! Surely she was a creature of horror, of ill-omen,
her own ghost!”
“She felt that
she had marvelous strength, endless freedom. She could do what she liked, go
where she pleased.”
“She could not
tell in what new relation she stood to the earth and to living folk.”
“She was still
in touch with the world.”
“But she was not
at one with her friend: death was between them.”
“She could feel
no intimacy for others so long as her existence perplexed her and consciousness
remained.”
“Women do not
love mystery, because, though uncertainty may be transmuted into poetry, into
heroism, into scholarship, it cannot be turned to account in household work.”
“What have I to
do with you? Am I of the earth? You laugh, weep, love; each grips and holds his
own; I merely look. You are human, I a shadow. I cannot understand why God has
kept me in this world of yours.”
“If I have no
place among the living, I have none among the dead, Oh! Wither shall I go? Oh! Wither
shall I go?”
“By dying,
Kadambini had given proof that she was not dead.”
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