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"What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering? For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exaltation again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you."
"Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn, to be on fire. Like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise."
"(quoting William Shakespeare) "Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken""
"Fanny: People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them."
"Lose your heart and come to your senses."
"Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood"
"Kate Winslet - Marianne Dashwood"
"Alan Rickman - Col. Christopher Brandon"
"Hugh Grant - Edward Ferrars"
"Emilie François - Margaret Dashwood"
"Elizabeth Spriggs - Mrs. Jennings"
"Robert Hardy - Sir John Middleton"
"Ian Brimble - Thomas"
"Isabelle Amyes - Betsy"
"Greg Wise - John Willoughby"
"Alexander John - Curate"
"Imelda Staunton - Charlotte Jennings Palmer"
"Imogen Stubbs - Lucy Steele"
"Hugh Laurie - Mr Palmer"
"Allan Mitchell - Pigeon"
"Josephine Gradwell - Maid to Mrs. Jennings"
"Richard Lumsden - Robert Ferrars"
"Lone Vidahl - Miss Grey"
"Oliver Ford Davies - Doctor Harris"
"Eleanor McCready - Mrs. Bunting"
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.