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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Life
Anyone
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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
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I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
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I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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