“Development is a treacherous river, as
everyone who plunges into its currents knows.”
― Shah of Shahs
everyone who plunges into its currents knows.”
― Shah of Shahs
“I am still on my zigzag way, pursuing the diagonal between reason and heart.”
― Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas
― Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas
“She is not listening. If she could hear words like that she would not be getting down from this wagon, with that belly and that fan and that little bundle, alone, bound for a place she never saw before and hunting for a man she ain't going to ever see again and that she has already seen one time too many as it is.”
― Light in August
― Light in August
“All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“From a logical point of view, anyone
who sets out to create a Great Civilization ought to begin with people, with training cadres of experts
in order to form a native intelligentsia. But it was precisely that kind of thinking that was unacceptable. Open new universities and polytechnics, every one a hornets' nest, every student a rebel, a good-for-nothing, a freethinker?”
― Shah of Shahs
who sets out to create a Great Civilization ought to begin with people, with training cadres of experts
in order to form a native intelligentsia. But it was precisely that kind of thinking that was unacceptable. Open new universities and polytechnics, every one a hornets' nest, every student a rebel, a good-for-nothing, a freethinker?”
― Shah of Shahs
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