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""Songs are like flowers / they come up spontaneously / they are like dreams / and we only have to / write them quickly / because then they fade away / and we will not remember them"'"
"Take God here / I have to talk to him / I want to tell him / about a life I have lived / and which I haven't understood / what it has been worth living / what has changed / or better / what have I earned?"
""What I wouldn't give / to live a fable!" (from Vivere una favola, 1988)"
""Better to die because of you, rather than dying still!" (from Domani si adesso no, 1985)"
""Imagine that it is always Sunday / you always free / and your mother less nevrotic" (from T'immagini, 1988)"
""I don't sit here / I want to live above / I want to live just once!" (from Brava Giulia, 1987)"
""Life is a shiver that flies away / it's all a balance on madness" (from Sally, 1996)"
""And every time evening comes back..." (from Ogni volta, 1982)"
""Look what nice surprise life is / that someday you wake up and it's over / and it will never come back again" (from Ci Credi, 1993)"
""But if armies turn / an heroes disappear / if it's us now / who start making war / don't smile, the shoots above / are for you!" (from Gli Spari Sopra, 1993)"
""Stars in the sky / and dreams are few / the ones who come true" (from Ridere di te, 1987)"
""And... / If you need me / and can't find me / search for me in a dream" (from E..., 2004)"
""It's only us... / Generation of upset people / Without Saints or Heroes... / It's only us..."
""Yeah, it's me / three different men / one it's not me / the other ones are lost..." (from Senorita, 2004)"
""And life goes on / even without us / who are far by now" (da Anima Fragile, 1980)"
""When you reach the bottom / you'll go up / you'll come up / or you won't come anymore" (from Che cosa c'è, 1985)"
""Thank Heaven who gave us the woman!" (concert in Florence, june 2005)"
""And now that I've arrived here thanks to my dreams / what should I do with reality? / And now that I don't even have my illusions / I don't even care about truth". (from E adesso tocca a me, 2008)"
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.