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“Perfume the literature you write with only the finest inks,
for literature works are luscious girls, and ink their precious perfume.
—Arabic saying ~800 AD”
― Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
for literature works are luscious girls, and ink their precious perfume.
—Arabic saying ~800 AD”
― Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
“We all need colors to fill the blank spaces within the faint and drab outlines of our all-too-short lives.”
― Snuffing out the Moon
― Snuffing out the Moon
“The characters in my novels are my unrealized possibilities, That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border (the border beyond which my own ' I' ends) which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about. The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become." ( Milan Kundera, The Unforgettable Lightness of Being: Page, 218)”
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“وہ شوخ چشم، مشک بدن کون لے گیا
میرےتتار تیرے ہرن کون لے گیا
گلیاں خموش، راہ گزاریں اداس ہیں کوچہ نوردیوں کی لگن کون لے گیا
اب چاند کوئی بام سے ہوتا نہیں طلوع
غرفوں سے جھانکنے کا چلن کون لے گیا
جو روز جھانکتی تھی کواڑوں کی اوٹ سے
اے بند کھڑکیو! وہ کرن کون لے گیا وہ رت جگوں کے چاہنے والے کہاں گئے ہنگامہ ہائے شعر وسخن کون لے گیا ( عرفان صدیقی، ، سخن اباد، کلیات صفحات 140 تا 142)”
― Canvas
میرےتتار تیرے ہرن کون لے گیا
گلیاں خموش، راہ گزاریں اداس ہیں کوچہ نوردیوں کی لگن کون لے گیا
اب چاند کوئی بام سے ہوتا نہیں طلوع
غرفوں سے جھانکنے کا چلن کون لے گیا
جو روز جھانکتی تھی کواڑوں کی اوٹ سے
اے بند کھڑکیو! وہ کرن کون لے گیا وہ رت جگوں کے چاہنے والے کہاں گئے ہنگامہ ہائے شعر وسخن کون لے گیا ( عرفان صدیقی، ، سخن اباد، کلیات صفحات 140 تا 142)”
― Canvas
“Something else raised him above the others as well: he had an open book on his table. No one had ever opened a book in that restaurant before. In Tereza's eyes, books were the weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the books she took out of the municipal library, and above all, the novels. She had read any number of them, from Fielding to Thomas Mann. They not only offered the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying; they also had a meaning for her as physical objects: she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others."( The Unforgettable lightness of Being, Milan Kundera, page 47)”
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