REMEMBERING CHARLES
DICKENS
IN HIS FAMOUS BOOK,
"A TALE OF TWO
CITIES"
These two quotations
from Charles Dickens have remained with me ever since the days when I studied
Charles Dickens for my course in English Literature in High School in India.
Men like Dickens
represented the conscience of the people of his time. Without being religious
he was an intensely spiritual soul.
Here are his quotes
in the above book:
"The greatest
desire that I have in this world is to forget that I belong to it. It has no
place in it for me, nor I for it!"
These were the words
of an apparent drunk and wayward Sidney Carton who was shunned by the so called
"good" folk of his time, but who was really a very good soul at
heart.
When he opted to die
in place of his double, Charles Darnay, who was also his rival in love, these
were his words on his way to the guillotine to be beheaded in place of his
friend:
"It is a far,
far better thing that I do, than I have ever done.
It is a far, far
better place that I go to, than I have ever known."
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