Rabindranath Tagore Quote

I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.


Letters from Abroad (ed. 1924)


I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away...

I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away...

I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away...

I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away...