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Quotes by Iranian Authors
"I think falling in love is like discovering the magic of books. You think to yourself, 'how was I living before this?"
"I didn't want the clothes or the perfect shoes or the expensive anything. I didn't want to be draped in silk. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart."
"I was mistaken when I said you live in my heart. How absurd I was when you live in my fingertips so that everything I touch is you. How foolish I was when you live in my toes so that everywhere I go there's you. How senseless of me to say you live in my heart when you breathe in my lungs, walk on my mind, and drink in my mouth. I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you."
"For how can any human be separate from humanity and humanness?"
"The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you felt when you were petty with friends and impatient with your parents, when you were rude to your teachers and didn't stand up for strangers, that guilt is marvellous. It proves that you are human, that you want to be better. Thank this guilt for teaching you, for making you aware. And now endeavour to better yourself. It is a lifelong work to become the person we want to be."
"Your attention is so sacred that if you truly look for beauty and grace, you will find it in everything."
"I am suspended in the moment. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariously in dead space, a whirlwind of memories that slice through my soul."
"We start a relationship with someone not only because of how great they are but how great they make us feel. And because they have granted us this extraordinary gift-a chance to experience love, joy, compassion, and security -it is our exclusive privilege to make them feel wonderful about themselves, especially during days when they, themselves, don't feel so wonderful."
"Kenji has a hand pressed to his mouth, desperately trying to suppress a smile. He's shaking his head, holding up a hand in apology. And then he breaks, laughing out loud, snorting as he tries to muffle the sound. "I'm sorry, he says, pressing his lips together, shaking his head again. "This is not a funny moment. It's not. I'm not laughing."
"Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal."
"How is it that there was never youuntil there wasand then all was you?"
"Until you see beauty everywhere, in every face, until then, you are blind."
"It's so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That's why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity."
"Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal."
"And I don't know much about anything in this world but I do know how to read The book written in his eyes. The way he looks at me."
"Work. Good, honest work, whether it's working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sense of divinity at play. The only prerequisite is that whatever the work is, it is done sincerely and in congruence with the soul's true origin and intent, then, without any effort, one experiences a flow, wherein one feels a part of the plan of the entire universe."
"She could see all of Ferenwood from here: the rolling hills, the endless explosion of color cascading down and across the lush landscape. Reds and blues: Maroon and ceruleans. Yellow and tangerine and violet and aquamarine. Every hue held a flavor, a heartbeat, a life. She took a deep breath and drew it all in."
"The reason for the past is only revealed in the future."
"The only path wide enough for us all is love."
"The greatest thinkers have attempted to find who we are where we come from and why we are here but the greatest enigmas to me are how your hair is a lasso that captures the stars how your eyes are lakes that drown my doubts and how your skin is the sun bursting all at once. If I knew these answers I'd know everything for you alone contain the entire universe."
"I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art."
"Are you out of your goddamn mind? You think we can take on two hundred soldiers? I know I am an extremely attractive man, J, but I am not Bruce Lee."Who's Bruce Lee?"Who's Bruce Lee? Kenji asks, horrified. "Oh my God. We can't even be friends anymore."Why? Was he a friend of yours?"You know what, he says, "just stop. Just-I can't even talk to you right now."
"Don't make the mistake of looking down on your partner. You're only on that pedestal because they put you up there."
"All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart."
"Enjoy this moment. The ultimate fulfilment of the dream will not come close to the dream. Enjoy it."
"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."
"Missing you,I missed a part of meI shared with you that's now gone.Missing you, when really, it was the way you made me feeland the things you made us do.Missing you I shouldn't be.But I can't help missing who I was with you.Missing you,I missed and missed so much of the world and wasn't even missed in return."
"We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others."
"Find me. Seduce me. I want to be in love with you."
"They tell us the greatest love story is how water fell in love with fire. Or how satan fell in love with God. But the greatest love story to me is how I didn't notice myself falling, when I fell in love with you."
"A spark of every fire we seek is already within us."
"A soulmate is a direct pathway to God."
"Beautiful enough to lure in prey, he said. Strong enough to clamp down and destroy, he said."
"To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love."
"You know how sometimes you meet someone and you feel like you've known them your whole life?Well, I feel like I've loved you my whole life."
"I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. But now the words dance with me. I sing with them and we create poetry."
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