“And only the Master shall praise us and only the Master shall blame And no one shall work for money and no one shall work for fame But each for the joy of the working and each in his separate star Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of things as They Are!”
Rudyard Kipling“Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.”
Jorge Luis Borges“Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.”
Rudyard Kipling“Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!”
Rudyard Kipling“Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can;But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!”
Rudyard Kipling“All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call 'civilization.”
Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy“And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'”
Rudyard Kipling“San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.”
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