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"Accept me as I am. Only then can we discover each other."
"Enough of symbolism and these escapist themes of purity and innocence."
"I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest film. No lies whatsoever. I thought I had something so simple to say. Something useful to everybody. A film that could help bury forever all those dead things we carry within ourselves. Instead, I'm the one without the courage to bury anything at all. When did I go wrong? I really have nothing to say, but I want to say it all the same."
"My Dears... Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone."
"All the confusion of my life... has been a reflection of myself! Myself as I am, not as I'd like to be."
"The truth is: I do not know... I seek... I have not yet found. Only with this in mind can I feel alive and look at you without shame."
"It's better to destroy than create what's unnecessary."
"You see, what stands out at a first reading is the lack of a central issue or a philosophical stance. That makes the film a chain of gratuitous episodes which may even be amusing in their ambivalent realism. You wonder, what is the director really trying to do? Make us think? Scare us? That ploy betrays a basic lack of poetic inspiration."
"Destroying is better than creating, when we're not creating those few truly necessary things."
"Life is so full of confusion already, there's no need to add chaos to the chaos."
"Pace, il produttore: Why piece together the tatters of your life - the vague memories, the faces... the people you never knew how to love?"
"Marcello Mastroianni - Guido Anselmi"
"Claudia Cardinale - Claudia"
"Anouk Aimée - Luisa Anselmi"
"Sandra Milo - Carla"
"Jean Rougeul - Carini, il critico cinematografico (The Writer)"
"Rossella Falk - Rossella"
"Barbara Steele - Gloria Morin"
"Guido Alberti - Pace, il produttore"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.