"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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Source : Nadeem Aslam (2011). “Maps for Lost Lovers”, p.64, Faber & Faber

Nadeem Aslam

#Past Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Sometimes we esteem others more important than ourselves. We always become the martyr. It is wonderful to be self-sacrificing, but watch out for self-disdain! If we donâ€™t apply some of the medicine that we use on others to strengthen ourselves, our patients will be healed and we will be dying.”
“Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one manâ€™s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude”
“Anything that makes you happy can make you sad.”

Source : Patrick Jones (2011). “The Tear Collector”, p.93, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Focusing upon the positive by counting your blessings, or using positive affirmations in the fertile time before you fall asleep is an invitation to both your subconscious mind and your pre-conscious mind to use your dreams as a way to show you insights, solutions and new creative ideas.”
“I have so many messy moments.”
“The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.”
“I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.”
“The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.”

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