क्या आप जानते हैं कि किसी के प्यार में पागल हो जाना क्या होता है? किसी स्त्री की एक मुस्कान और हँसी के लिए जीना, उसकी छुअन के लिए इस कदर तड़पना कि उसके बिना ज़िंदगी बेमानी लगने लगे, और उसे पाने की चाहत ऐसे महसूस होना जैसे जीने के लिए साँसों की ज़रूरत होती है?

Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman’s smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?

Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman’s smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?

मुझे अपनी कॉफ़ी मलाईदार और अपना साहित्य उम्मीदों से भरा हुआ पसंद है।

I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.

I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.

“हाह!” कर्नल हँसे। “और क्या जॉर्जी।”

Hah!” The Colonel laughed. “And did Georgie.

Hah!” The Colonel laughed. “And did Georgie.

लगता है हम सब इस बात के प्रति बहुत कमज़ोर होते हैं कि हमारा दिल हमें सही रास्ते से भटका देता है।

It seems we are all too vulnerable to having our heart lead us astray from what is right.

It seems we are all too vulnerable to having our heart lead us astray from what is right.

मैं यह बात साफ कर देना चाहता हूँ कि भले ही हमारी इस बातचीत के दौरान मैंने पूरी तरह संयम बनाए रखा, लेकिन जलती हुई इमारतों में घुसने जैसे जोखिम उठाने के आपके इस तरीके पर मेरी कड़ी आपत्तियाँ हैं।

I would like to point out that while I have considerately remained composed during our discourse, I do have streneous objections to you taking risks such as walking into burning buildings.

I would like to point out that while I have considerately remained composed during our discourse, I do have streneous objections to you taking risks such as walking into burning buildings.

जब कोई सज्जन मुझे विस्तार से यह बताने में काफी समय लगाते हैं कि उनके पिता ने उनकी माँ को कैसे मनाया था, तो मुझे यह मान लेना पड़ता है कि इस कहानी में मेरे लिए भी कोई सीख छिपी होगी। चूंकि इस मामले में वह प्रसंग मुख्य रूप से यह था कि उनके पिता बार-बार शादी की जिद करते रहे और उनकी माँ लगभग उतनी ही बार मना करती रहीं, तो मैं इसका यही मतलब निकालती हूँ कि मना करने का कोई खास फायदा नहीं है, क्योंकि आखिर में बात घूम-फिरकर वहीं आ जाएगी और थक हारकर मुझे उनकी बात माननी ही पड़ेगी।

When a gentleman spends quite some time telling me in detail about his father’s courtship of his mother, I have to assume there is some moral for me in the tale. Since in this case that courtship consisted primarily of his father insisting repeatedly they were to marry and his mother refusing him almost as often, I take the moral to be that there is very little point in refusing, since it would only lead to the question being repeated until I agreed to it out of sheer exhaustion.

When a gentleman spends quite some time telling me in detail about his father’s courtship of his mother, I have to assume there is some moral for me in the tale. Since in this case that courtship consisted primarily of his father insisting repeatedly they were to marry and his mother refusing him almost as often, I take the moral to be that there is very little point in refusing, since it would only lead to the question being repeated until I agreed to it out of sheer exhaustion.