Sartre says and I quote, "the plum you're going to eat next summer doesn't know you exist."

tang-e-dil ka gila kya ye vo kafir-dil hai ki agar tang na hota to pareshan hota. - viran hota, Deewan-e-Ghalib Jadeed.

Lekin Mujhe Paida Kiya Uss Daish Mein Tu Ne Jis Daish Ke Bande Hain Ghulami Pe Razamand! - zarb-e-kaleem-013, Shukar-O-Shikayat.

The taste of Blood!

Ballaman. Khamaj. Ankhon Ky Sagar. Zinda Durr. Sar kiyae. Sari Raat. To kya hua. Garaj Baras. Dasht-e-Tanahi.

I guess you haven't been introduced to Mircea Cartarescu.

The background tried to concur my inner conflicts and I lost myself to it. Maybe, I like it that way.

“History is what James Joyce called it: a nightmare, from which we are all trying to awaken.” — Borges (interview, April 1980) from Borges at Eighty: Conversations.

- we are all museums of fear.

state liya to liya, sweetheart ko bhi liya tsk tsk tsk.

We need the author who 'lives in life,' mixes with mud, rolls in rot, claws the scoundrels. . .

What is poetry which does not save Nations or people? A connivance with official lies, A song of drunkards whose throats will be cut in a moment.

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“Reading is anguish, and this is because any text, however important, or amusing, or interesting it may be (and the more engaging it seems to be), is empty — at bottom it doesn't exist; you have to cross an abyss, and if you do not jump, you do not comprehend.”

- The hinges of hope.

Aap kahte the ke rone se na badlen ge naseeb Umr bhar aap ki is baat ne rone na diya Warna kya baat thi kis baat ne rone na diya

André Breton quoting Nadja: “a kiss that carried a threat.”

“You used to believe that with age you would become less unhappy, because you then would have reasons to be sad. When you were still young, your suffering was inconsolable because you believed it to be unfounded.”

Read and reread The Archeology of Knowledge (a title that is dangerous in itself since it evokes what should be turned away from, the logos of the arche..) and you will be surprised to rediscover many a formula from negative theology.

ab mire dosre baazo pe vo shamshir hai jo is se pahle bhī mirā nisf badan kaaT chuki usi bandoq ki naali hai meri samt ki jo is se pahle meri shah-rag ka lahochaaT chuki phir vahi aag dar aayī hai meri galiyon mein phir mire shahr mein barood ku bo phaile hai.