44 Quotes by Khushwant Singh

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    If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one can pattern one’s conduct. Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. Sometimes its triumphs are greater. What happens ultimately, you do not know. In such circumstances what can you do but cultivate an utter indifference to all values? Nothing matters. Nothing whatever...

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    You have only one life to live. Live it to the full. Time flies as fast as a bird on the wing.

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    Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

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    In a country which had accepted caste distinctions for many centuries, inequality had become an inborn mental concept.

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    As I had studied the poetry of Rumi, Jami, Nizami, Hafiz and Amir Khusrau, with some difficulty in the original Persian, and with some ease in various English translations, I realised that Nanak had absorbed the ethos of Islamic poetical mysticism, inherited the belief in ecstasy of union of Baba Farid, Nizam-ud-Din Aulia and Kabir. Of.

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    A Sikh woman takes the surname Kaur on baptism. Kaur was also a common surname for Rajput women and means both a princess and lioness.

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    Passions have made mortals of us men. If men were not slaves of passion, they would have been Gods, each one.

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    She had many shortcomings, but perhaps that alone was what made her human. She may not have been a likeable person, but she was, in her own way, a woman to be loved and admired.

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    Not forever reigneth joy, Sets the sun on days of bliss, Friendships not forever last, They know not life, who know not this.

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