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41 " She could crowd a thousand thoughts into her head, but it was, at that moment like a strainer -- the more she tried to fill up every little corner, the more emptiness there was. "
― Saadat Hasan Manto
42 " God commands worship but doesn't five it. After having spent a few moments with nothingness, he gave life to existence ... but where is nothingness now? Like a mother it gave birth to existence and then died in childbirth. "
43 " मैं चूँकि ज़्यादा पीने का आदी हूँ, इसलिए मैं ज्यों का त्यों बैठा था। "
― Saadat Hasan Manto , Toba Tek Singh: Stories
44 " If you are not familiar with the time period we are passing through, read my stories. If you cannot bear these stories, that means this is an unbearable time. The evils in me are those of this era. "
45 " When we were enslaved, we could imagine freedom, but now that we are free, how will we imagine subjection? "
46 " Saugandhi lied in her brain. But when a man spoke to her gently, she decended and spread to all parts of her body. Although her mind abhorred the physical relationship between a man and a woman, he body hungered for it. It yearned for exhaustion and forgetfulness, the wondrous sleep that takes over after the body has been wracked, the peace which follows after the body has been wracked, the peace which follows after the body has taken a beating, the bones aching and loose. You forget you exist and in those intervals of being and nonbeing you feel you are high up in the sky, surrounded on all sides by nothing but air. Stifling in that atmosphere would be joy. "
47 " Saugandhi wished she could spend all of her life in a box like that so that those on the outside could continue looking for her. sometimes the should be able to find her, so she could in turn become the seeker. The life she had led these last five years also constituted a type of hide-and-seek. Occasionally she found someone and often someone found her -- her life continued to progress in this manner and she was happy. Every night there was a man by her side on the large teak bed ans she, show knew many tricks to keep a man at bay. she who had resolved not to let any man take advantage of her, she, Sangandhi, overcome by emotion, would find her resolve diminishing and would begin to flow with her emotions and this remain, to the end, a woman insatiated. "
48 " She carried herself with the thought that she was a decent person and she often wondered why the men in her life were not decent too "
49 " They both were liars. Both led lives camouflaged in artifice. But Saugandhi was happy. Someone who cannot afford real gold will gladly settle for artificial jewelry. "
50 " बम्बई जो यूँ भी जश्नों की दुल्हन कहलाती है नयी नवेली दुल्हन की तरह सज गयी। "
― Saadat Hasan Manto , Boo Aur Anya Kahaniyan
51 " These fragments that have helped shape your fulfillment are a part of my being; is there no connection between these and the rest of my person? Can the rest of me dissociate itself from these fragments? You have made yourself whole, but you have done so at the cost of my integrity. Is this what I defied you for? "
52 " Today we are called new writers. The coming tomorrow, considering us old, will lock us in closets, but that does not mean we have lived in vain. "
53 " Writers are not prophets. We see one thing, one problem in different conditions and from different angles, and whatever we understand we present to the world, and we never force it to accept it. "
54 " I am not seditious. I do not want to stir up people’s ideas and feelings. If I take off the blouse of culture and society, then it is naked. I do not try to put clothes back on, because that is not my job. "
55 " वह सख़्त हैरान थी कि लोग अमीर और ग़रीब क्यों होते हैं, जबकि हर इन्सान एक ही तरह माँ के पेट से पैदा होता "
― Saadat Hasan Manto , ठंडा गोश्त और अन्य कहानियाँ
56 " A man is not responsible for the crime he commits, his circumstances are. "
57 " आह, बड़ा होने पर इनका भी यही काम होगा...फिर मुझे छः जानों का डर लगा रहेगा... "
58 " If there is a God, I implore him -- for God's sake destroy the laws of men, demolish their prisons and make your own prisons in the heavens. Punish them in your own courts, because if nothing else, you are at least, God. "
59 " दर्दनाक आवाज़ में कहने लगी, “आह, तो उन बोसों का जो जिस्म को राहत बख़्शते हैं...और माँ की मुहब्बत, गीत, तबस्सुम (मुस्कुराहट), हँसी और नाच का एक ही अंजाम है...क़ब्र...आह मेरे ख़ुदा! "
60 " लाश के पहलू में दो बच्चे सो रहे थे—उसने महसूस किया, लाश के सीने में एक आह कुछ कहने को रुकी हुई है और पथराई हुई आँखें झोंपड़ी की ख़स्ता छत को चीरकर अँधेरे आसमान की तरफ़ टकटकी लगाये देख रही हैं, जैसे उसे कोई पैग़ाम देना हो। "