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“All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.”
― Nadeem Aslam, Maps for Lost Lovers

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“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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“How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence. It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.”
― Nadeem Aslam, The Wasted Vigil

tags: life, literature, philosophy

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“Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.”
― Nadeem Aslam, The Wasted Vigil

tags: interconnectedness, literature, symbolism

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“Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.”
― Nadeem Aslam

tags: poetic-prose

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