Meghna Pant Quotes

#1. Perhaps the only way to love is to bury yourself so deeply in it that you avoid its very suffering.

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#2. Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear.

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#3. I festered with this duality of love and ego, where ego scorns the very love its seeking and then despairs in its absence.

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#4. In India there's no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man's face and you'll find an old man's mind.

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#5. Like a Persian carpet the weave of time pushed their lives into a pattern.

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#6. Her young soul felt cut up like a fifty-year-old, like a squirrel that appeared content, but carried scars from the vestige of time in its black and gray grooves.

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#7. She gave her a long embrace, like pie baking in the warmth of an oven.

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#8. All marriages were a consequence of security, tradition, money and beauty. Love was a chance, a lucky coincidence. Its existence was an after-thought, for more serious matters cemented marriage.

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#9. I have learnt that a good marriage is healing for the soul, something to relish. But a bad marriage is long-suffering, a thing to be endured. The only good thing about marriage is that it's perishable like human life.

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