Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
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Fragment ID: 7164
Kipling
No use of success unless it is deserved. Can’t forget that Kipling for whose poetry I have a Noble contempt (his prose has value, at least the Jungle Book and some short stories) was illegitimately Nobelised by this confounded prize. Contemporary “success” of fame is a deceit and a snare.
12 September 1938