One without a second
"Yes, genius is disappointed hope and love, the flower and the fruit of intense suffering.
Yes, genius is controlled, sublimated vital energy, the spark of life that is the same both in the atom and in the star.
Genius at its lower level is truancy and romanticism.
Genius at its highest levels is politics and patriotism, music and poetry, philosophy and religion,— and above all, spiritual realisation that makes you one with the invisible atom and the twinkling star—THE ONE WITHOUT A SECOND."
- Venkataramani, K. S. (1932) Kandan, the Patriot. Madras: Svetranya Ashrama. (Excerpt from Epilogue)













