Nadeem Aslam Quotes

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.

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All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

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The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.

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Even the air of this country has a story to tell about warfare. It is possible here to lift a piece of bread from a plate and following it back to its origins, collect a dozen stories concerning war-how it affected the hand that pulled it out of the oven, the hand that kneaded the dough, how war impinged upon the field where wheat was grown.

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On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

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Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

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He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in the scent of the acacia blossom, making themselves visible only to the young in order to entrap them in otherworldly world.

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The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.

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Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.

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Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.

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The sky is a blue so clean it verges on joy.

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