Akbar Allahabadi Top Quotes | EkChaupal
हम आह भी करते हैं तो हो जाते हैं बदनाम
वो क़त्ल भी करते हैं तो चर्चा नहीं होता
हम आह भी करते हैं तो हो जाते हैं बदनाम
वो क़त्ल भी करते हैं तो चर्चा नहीं होता
कुछ सत्य बिल्कुल अनावश्यक होते हैं, उन्हें कहने, न कहने से कोई अंतर नहीं पड़ता।
इस गुंडा समय में न मैं लाठी होना चाहता हूँ
न चाकू न पिस्तौल
इस गुंडा समय में मैं अपने समय का
एक गुंडा नहीं होना चाहता हूँ
“The argument goes something like this: ‘I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, ‘for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'”
“‘But,’ says Man, ‘The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so, therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.'”
“‘Oh dear,’ says God, ‘I hadn’t thought of that,’ and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.”
It’s because all the performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I’m driving. I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of – that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally, I find that encouraging.
It scares people how much we really know one another, so we pretend we don’t. You know me. You’ve known me all your life. Only now I’m here. Take me. Use me. Try me.
And a thought hits me – the axis of time. Somewhere I don’t know about, something weird is happening to time. Reality and dreams are all mixed up, like sea water and river water flowing together. I struggle to find the meaning behind it all, but nothing makes any sense.
It is only when we get to the point of letting the bird out of its cage that we can realize how free the bird had set us. Whatever we cage, shackles us with desire whose bonds are stronger than those of iron chains. I tell you, sir, this is just what the world has failed to understand. They all seek to reform something outside themselves. But reform is wanted only in one’s own desires, nowhere else, nowhere else!
Neither am I divine: I am human. And therefore I dare not permit the evil which is in me to be exaggerted into the image of my country – never, never!
Chekhov के नाटक The Seagull पढ़ते हुए ये कुछ पंक्तियाँ पसंद आईं हैं – अच्छे साहित्य में सवाल नए या पुराने तरीकों या रूपों का नहीं है, बल्कि विचारों का है जो लेखक के हृदय से स्वतंत्रता से निकले हों, बगैर उसके सोचे कि उनका रूप क्या होगा। – चेखव – नाटक – द…