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“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”
― Aldous Huxley

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“thus with a kiss I die”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“The sadness will last forever.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Ayub’s pro- Western outlook, moderate views, and fair complexion, which made him look more British than the British, confirmed his selection as commander- in- chief in January 1951.”
― Ayesha Jalal, The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics

“گدھوں اور دانشمندوں کی ایک مثال ہے کہ جہاں سب گدھے ہوجائیں وہاں کوئی گدھا نہیں ہوتا اور جہاں سب دانشمند بن جائیں وہاں کوئی دانشمند نہیں رہتا۔”
― Intizar Hussain, Akhri Aadmi / آخری آدمی

“The cure for loneliness is solitude.”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Prose of Marianne Moore

“Scepticism may be theoretically irrefutable, but even the sceptic must ‘act … and live, and converse, like other men’, since human nature gives him no choice.”
― David Hume, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding

“تاریخ کے حساس اِنسانوں نے اپنی زِندگی کا زیادہ حصّہ اداس رہ کر گزارا ہے۔
زِندگی میں خوش رہنے کے لیے بہت زیادہ ہمّت بلکہ بہت زیادہ بےحسی چاہیے۔

جون ایلیأ”
― Jaun Elia

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose--because it contains all the distinctions of the others--the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money". No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity--to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words 'to make money' hold the essence of human morality.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Pero, desde luego, "inversión" es un vocablo de significado relativo. Depende de lo que se quiera conseguir.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Other people's history can be read comfortably, the way a novel can be read comfortably. By my own history? I'm on the run from my own history, and catching my breath in the present. Escapist. But the merciless present pushes us back again toward our history. The mind keeps talking.”
― Intizar Husain, Basti

“They had left their cities, but they carried their cities with them, as a trust, on their shoulders. That's how it usually is. Even when cities are left behind, they don't stay behind. They seize on you even more. When the earth slips out from under your feet, that's when it really surrounds you . . . ”
― Intizar Husain, Basti

“دل رہینِ غمِ جہاں ہے آج
ہر نَفَس تشنہء فغاں ہے آج
سخت ویراں ہے محفلِ ہستی
اے غمِ دوست! تُو کہاں ہے آج”
― Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Nuskha ha-e Wafa / نسخہ ہائے وفا

“Alexander Rostov was neither scientist nor sage; but at the age of sixty-four he was wise enough to know that life does not proceed by leaps and bounds. It unfolds. At any given moment, it is the manifestation of a thousand transitions. Our faculties wax and wane, our experiences accumulate and our opinions evolve--if not glacially, then at least gradually. Such that the events of an average day are as likely to transform who we are as a pinch of pepper is to transform a stew.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“Manners are not like bonbons, Nina. You may not choose the ones that suit you best; and you certainly cannot put the half-bitten ones back in the box.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow