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"You know what sucks about dying? The crash. Everything up till now. The brain damage, you guys, everything— it has made my life so much more real. I started thinking about all the things I was going to do. I'd never been more excited to be alive! All that hope... wasted."
"I woke up this morning… 100 years ago."
"Indians used to think cameras would steal their souls."
"Catherine… please don’t leave me alone…"
"I never felt that comfortable being human in the first place. This isn't much worse."
"Just reviving a dead person doesn't seem to work that well. A robot body seems to make people a bit... unreliable. You are the best of both worlds. A sound mind in a sound body."
"[Final lines] It's okay, Simon. Everything's all right now."
"[Last words] Don't let them die, okay? Send them out there. To the stars."
"Where is the line drawn for what is human and what is not? Would walking corpses do? Would a group of machines thinking they're human be acceptable? We can't trust a machine to know, to understand what it means to be."
"The sky is pitch black with smoke. The ocean is dark, incredibly dark. In the distance I can see land. According to navigation it's Lisbon and the coast of Portugal."
"It's on fire. Everything is on fire. The flames, they're reaching all the way into the sky. It's unreal. [...] Nothing but a massive firestorm covering the continent."
"You should try spending some time in the abyss sweetheart, you know when shit's for real."
"My reflection in the black blood of our Warden whispers. I need to save them from this hell. I need to let them sleep. Lock them in their lucid dreams I've seen."
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.