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“بې زحمته راحت نشته No pleasure without labor”

— Pashto proverb, Rahmon Inomkhojayev “Pashto: An Elementary Textbook” (via polyglotted)

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Michel Foucault, Madness & Civilization

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What's meant for you, won't pass you by.

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Hain dalilen tere khilaf magar, sonchta hoon teri himayat me

-Jaun Elia

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Hum jee rahe hain koi bahane kiye bagair

Us ke bagair us ki tamanna kiye bagair

- Jaun Elia

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Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments

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"mai nahi chahta wo mere bulane se aaye,mai chahta hoon woh reh na paaye aur bahane se aaye"

"I don't want them to come just because I call them; I want them to feel they can't stay away and come with their own reasons."

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Their love for one another, yes: which has survived its own death.

-Intermezzo, Sally Rooney

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Then he pulled her closer to his heart and said:

Why is my happiness sad.!

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Dard se mere hai tujhko beqarari haaye haaye, Kiya hui zaalim teri ghaflat-sheari haaye haaye

Tere dil mein gar na tha aashob-e-gham ka hosla, Tu ne phir kyun ki thi meri gham-gusaari haaye haaye

Kyun meri gham-khargi ka tujhko aiya tha khayal, Dushmani apni thi meri dost-daari haaye haaye

Umr bhar ka tu ne paeman-e-wafa bandha to kiya, Umr bhar ko bhi to nahi hae paedaari haaye haaye

Zahar lagti hae mujhe aab-o-hawa-e-zindagi, Yaani tujh se thi ise nasaaz-gaari haaye haaye

Gul-fishaani hai, naz-e-jalwa ko kiya ho gaya? Khaak per hoti hae teri lalakaari haaye haaye

Sharm-e-rusawaae se ja chupna naqaab-e-khaak mein, Khatam hae ulfat ki tujh per parda-dari haaye haaye

Khaak mein namoos-e-paeman-e-muhabat mil gae, Uth gai se dunya se rah-o-rasm-e-yari haaye haaye

haath hi tegh-azma ka kaam se jaata raha dil pe ik lagne na paaya zakhm-e-kaari haaye haaye

kis tarah kaate koi shab-ha-e-tar-e-barshigal hai nazar khu-karda-e-akhtar-shumari haaye haaye

gosh mahjur-e-payam o chashm-e-mahrum-e-jamal ek dil tis par ye na-ummid-vaari haaye haaye

Ishq ne pakra na tha Ghalib abhi wehshat ka rang, Reh gaya dil mein jo kuch zauq-e-khari haaye haaye

Dard se mere hae tujhko beqarari haae haae, Kiya huwi zaalim teri ghaflat-sheari haaye haaye

–Ghalib

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تیرا امام بے حضور تیری نماز بے سرور

ایسی نماز سے گزر ایسے امام سے گزر

Tera Imaam be-hazoor, teri namaz be-suroor

Esi namaz se guzar, ese Imaam se guzar

—Allama Iqbal

Your Imaam is disgraceful, your namaz is without any ecstasy

Leave such an Imaam, Leave such a namaaz

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گر جمال یار نبود، با خیالش هم خوشم

If I cannot see her, at least I can think of her, and so be happy;

خانه درویش را شمعی به از مهتاب نیست

To light the beggar's hut, no candle is better than moonlight

- Amir Khusraw (امیر خوسرو)

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ziist se tañg ho ai 'dāġh' to jiite kyuuñ ho

jaan pyārī bhī nahīñ jaan se jaate bhī nahīñ

Dagh Dehlvi

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“Do the absent ones know the taste of waiting?”

— Ahlam Mosteghanemi

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شام کے سائے بالشتوں سے ناپے ہیں

Every inch of the sky has been searched

چاند نے کتنی دیر لگا دی آنے میں

O how long did the moon take to emerge

- Gulzar (گلزار)

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تم بھی اک روز کسی اور میں پا لو گے ہمیں

You too will find me in someone else one day

ہم بھی اک روز کسی اور میں پا لیں گے تمہیں

And I too will find you in someone else one day

- Ameer Imam (امیر امام)

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mohsin ye rang roop ye raunaq baja magar

maiñ zinda kya rahuñ ke mera jee toh bhar gya

- mohsin naqvi