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It was as if an embankment had been swept away and I (Neel ) were floundering in a flood , trying not to drown in my grief.
— Amitav Ghosh
To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.
— Alexandra David-Neel
Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?
— Alexandra David-Neel
Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing.
— Neel Burton
All experience is great providing you live through it.If it kills you, you've gone too far. — Alice Neel
Drinking turns a fool into a merry fool.
— Neel Burton
Relative poverty is when you have more taste than money.
— Neel Burton
Philosophy gives life to life.
— Neel Burton
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
— Alice Neel
A genius is no more - and no less - than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way.
— Neel Burton
If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world.
— Alice Neel
One writes what one can, or has to, write.
— Neel Mukherjee
Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.
— Neel Burton
Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
— Neel Burton
I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.
— Alice Neel
The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.
— Alice Neel
No one ever pays to learn the most important things.
— Neel Burton
What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance.
— Andrew Neel
One generation builds, the next generation consumes it to nothing; that is the abiding truth of life.
— Neel Mukherjee
Her veins and arteries ran with a bitter fluid, not blood, Adinath exclaimed in fury one day.
— Neel Mukherjee
Work defines our lives and our place in the world.
— Neel Mukherjee
The two greatest warriors are Truth and Time. Be sure to march behind, and not against, them.
— Neel Burton
I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.
— Neel Mukherjee
I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently.
— Neel Mukherjee
You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.
— Alice Neel
Within minutes a small crowd had gathered: what could be more interesting than other people's lives?
— Neel Mukherjee
Anxiety, says Kierkegaard, is the dizziness of freedom.
— Neel Burton
Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.
— Neel Burton
Being a Bengali, one is surprised when all the endless spume and froth of talk suddenly reveals itself to be the front of a gigantic wave of action.
— Neel Mukherjee
Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
— Alexandra David-Neel
The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.
— Alice Neel
Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.
— Alexandra David-Neel
Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.
— Neel Mukherjee
There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.
— Alexandra David-Neel
As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul ...
— Alexandra David-Neel
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
— Alexandra David-Neel
The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet ...
— Alexandra David-Neel
Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change.
— Alice Neel
Philosophy is an act of seduction between one true lover and another, most often the philosopher and himself.
— Neel Burton
Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.
— Neel Burton
If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth.
— Neel Burton
One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.
— Alexandra David-Neel
Our life is just as long or short as our memory, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.
— Neel Burton
When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.
— Neel Mukherjee
It could be said of him that while others chased the mirage of happiness, he was happy with being content.
— Neel Mukherjee
Not for the first time in his life he felt himself fall into the gap between felings and their articulation in language.
— Neel Mukherjee
The incident, played out for, it seemed, a few infinitely elastic seconds, caused a certain calculation to go through the boy's head.
— Neel Mukherjee
Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.
— Alice Neel
Whoever said that time blunts all pain did not quite understand that bluntness can wound as grievously as sharp points and edges;
— Neel Mukherjee
When you see something every day, it gets into your brain.
— Elizabeth Neel
Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.
— Alexandra David-Neel
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
— Alexandra David-Neel
Maths is at only one remove from magic.
— Neel Burton
I couldn't make any sense of this logic, that the better off got more and those had little got less. The world ran on this law and only on this.
— Neel Mukherjee
Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule.
— Neel Mukherjee
I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.'
— Neel Mukherjee
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls ... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.
— Alice Neel
Guard against idols yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself. — Alexandra David-Neel