Henri Bergson book Creative Evolution
Creative Evolution (1907), Chapter I, as translated by Arthur Mitchell (1911), p. 14.; italicized in the original.
“The instinctive Indian sense that nothing begins and nothing ends. We are all living in an eternal present in which what was and what will be is contained in what is, or to put it in a more contemporary idiom, that life is a series of sequel to history.”
— Shashi Tharoor, book The Great Indian Novel
The Great Indian Novel (1989)
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