Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Topic

Individual vs. the collective Isolation The crowd Man as social animal

Author

Rabindranath Tagore

Language

Bengali

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Nobel laureate Poet Writer

From

India Asia

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Tagore, Rabindrath. Stray Birds. The Macmillan Company, 1916, no. 110.

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Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.

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Source
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Medium
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Language
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Time
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Authentication Score 2
Citation

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