Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing!
I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star. - Sadegh Hedayat
I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.
- Sadegh Hedayat
In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude. - Sadegh Hedayat
In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.
The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Y… - Sadegh Hedayat
The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Y…
What relationship could exist between the lives of the fools and healthy rabble who were well, who slept well, who performed the sexual act well, who… - Sadegh Hedayat
What relationship could exist between the lives of the fools and healthy rabble who were well, who slept well, who performed the sexual act well, who…
Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed p… - Sadegh Hedayat
Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed p…
The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In th… - Sadegh Hedayat
The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In th…
If there was no death, everyone would wish for it. - Sadegh Hedayat
If there was no death, everyone would wish for it.
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life. - Sadegh Hedayat
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.
I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it. - Sadegh Hedayat
I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.
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