“Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.”
― Too Loud a Solitude
― Too Loud a Solitude
“Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.”
― Wandering
― Wandering
“چه فایده از اسمی که به خُود میبَندیم؛ وقتی پُشتِ آن کسِ دیگریم!”
― تاراجنامه
― تاراجنامه
“When I start reading I'm somewhere completely different, I'm in the text, it's amazing, I have to admit I've been dreaming, dreaming in a land of great beauty, I've been in the very heart of truth. Ten times a day, every day, I wonder at having wandered so far, and then, alienated from myself, a stranger to myself, I go home, walking the streets silently and in deep meditation, passing trams and cars and pedestrians in a cloud of books, the books I found that day and am carrying home in my briefcase.”
― Too Loud a Solitude
― Too Loud a Solitude
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