Book cover: The Black Coat

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The Black Coat

Neamat Imam

Quotes

  1. Suffering is not an otherworldly affair; it will never be that a person won’t be able to unearth the mystery of his suffering in his lifetime.

  2. Look beyond your self-importance and pain. You will know yourself better.

  3. Becoming a nationalist is not a matter of decision; it means one has locked one’s mind forever. No reason or practical advice or evidence is strong enough to unlock it.

  4. ‘So this is what famine does to a person,’ I thought as I walked back home. ‘It does not bring one to his knees only; it eats one alive. It is hungrier than a hungry man.’

  5. Everyone has to do something for survival, but that something does not have to define the real character of a person. I am what my head tells me I am. I am what my feelings say I am. I do not depend on anyone’s approval.

  6. No man is more of a stranger to you than you are to him. Receive him with trust.

  7. You can’t predict anything about a ruler.

  8. Life is not supposed to make things complex. It is to unwind things, by giving simple answers to simple questions.

  9. Desperation guides us in life. Rationality does not.

  10. No government will ever surrender to the wishes of its people. No society will ever be free from the control of its government.

  11. It is hard for a faithful citizen to believe that his government does not care about him.

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