Mark Twain on Varanasi
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“Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend and looks twice as old as all of them put together.”
“I think Banares is one of the most wonderful places I have ever seen. It has struck me that a Westerner feels in Banares very much as an Oriental must feel while he is planted down in the middle of London.”