१८५७ का स्वातन्त्र्य समर (वीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर - अंग्रेजों द्वारा छपने से पूर्व प्रतिबन्धित महाग्रन्थ)

THE CONFLAGRATION
this palace and these temples had been burnt down only
after they had accomplished their task. The very extinc-
tion of such structures is more inspiring, a thousand times
more life-giving, than the existence of hundreds of other
structures which are but monument of slavery ; for these
have attempted to give birth to independence ; and they
have died in that attempt. Far more profitable is death
through the attempt to establish Swaraj than life in
slavery. The sacred fuel burning in the sacrificial fire
is a thousand times more life-giving than the log of wood
burning in the funeral pyre.
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