"The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life."
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"Hedged in though she is by mortality, her life‘s movement keeps the measure of the Gods. Painting her being and its human-divine beauty Sri Aurobindo achieves some of his supreme effects. Perhaps his …"
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