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Quotes by Iranian Authors
"Each of us is like all of us and like no one else."
"Don't say to yourself, 'Everyone argues!' to justify and normalise your fighting, when the most natural thing is to love."
"If you wait until you find something to speak up for, something that you're passionate about that concerns you and attacks your own beliefs, then eventually, when the day finally arrives, you might also find that you have forgotten how to speak."
"Whenever you keep score in love, you lose."
"My dear, please be careful.You no longer live only for yourself.You live for me as well."
"For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as not to let the silence illumine the fact that reading, they had gained something - distance, a lesson, a companion, a new world - but now, after the last full stop, they had lost something palpable and felt a little emptier than before."
"Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart."
"Things are changing, but this time I'm not afraid. This time I know who I am. This time I've made the right choice and fighting for the right team. I feel safe. Confident."
"No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the person you aspire to be."
"Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell."
"Retrospect: the sweetener of life."
"Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them."
"Love without conditions, restrictions, or the expectation of being loved in return."
"Your love brought me closer to God."
"A negative outlook is dangerous. When you say, "It can't get any worse! You're essentially challenging the universe to do exactly that."
"God's existence is reaffirmed once we fall in with another."
"Love isn't blind. Maybe we are all born blind and love finally gives us sight."
"Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening."
"Sadness is an invitation to God."
"The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love,then this cup is love,then this tavern is love,then this life is love."
"I have no use for these other loves.Seal them shut in jarsand place them in the pantry. A reserve of love.Thank them for their love.They are so kind.Perhaps store them in the fridgeFor others to take.They say love is a panacea. I know it is not.Flakes of snow,no two are alike.When I am down on my knees, hopeless and angry,for the world no longer makes sense,I won't look in the pantry or fridge.It is your hand pressing on my shoulderthat makes me whole,makes me forget.What trouble? What world?"
"Kamand, die every dayso you rememberto live."
"In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words."
"The closest thing to perfection is imperfection."
"Why didn't you write all this time?Did you not remember us in a song?A dance?In the skies littered with stars?Did you not get drunk?Why didn't you write all this time?Did you not remember us in a film?A book?In idyllic dusks and dawns?Did you not get high?It is good that you didn't.For all is well. I am drunk and dazed.I have already forgotten youand your bewitching ways."
"When I'm with you,I feel exposed.Naked. When I'm naked with you, I feel clothed.Sheltered."
"Babies cry at birth because it is the first time they experience separation from love."
"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."
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