“To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for "the Absolute" was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.”

— Mircea Eliade

As quoted in Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade (2002) by Douglas Allen, p. 216.

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