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“Pakistan’s unfortunate history may justify the description of Pakistan as being ‘insufficiently imagined’, but imagination is by definition not a finite process. An entity that is insufficiently imagined can be reimagined”

Book:Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State

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Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State

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Husain Haqqani

Husain Haqqani is an author and academic specializing in Pakistan and South Asia. Born on July 1, 1956, he has authored numerous works on the region's political and economic issues, and served as Pakistan's ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2011. more

“And the mist of snow, as he had foreseen, was still on it - a ghost of snow falling in the bright sunlight, softly and steadily floating and turning and pausing, soundlessly meeting the snow that covered, as with a transparent mirage, the bare bright cobbles. He loved it - he stood still and loved it. Its beauty was paralyzing - beyond all words, all experience, all dream. No fairy-story he had ever read could be compared with it - none had ever given him this extraordinary combination of ethereal loveliness with a something else, unnameable, which was just faintly and deliciously terrifying. ("Silent Snow, Secret Snow")”

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Book:Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Source: Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

“If your past life can flash before your eyes when you're drowning, as some people say, is it not possible that you might live the unlived rest of your life in the second or two before you die?”

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Book:Hearts in Suspension

Source: Hearts in Suspension

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