She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they cannot follow us along our destined path.

~ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to.

~ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Life Poverty People

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

~ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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