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“The true path is along a rope, not a rope suspended way up in the air, but rather only just over the ground. It seems more like a tripwire than a tightrope.”
― The Zürau Aphorisms
― The Zürau Aphorisms
“A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist's duty?”
― Lectures on Russian Literature
― Lectures on Russian Literature
“A day will come when men will discover an alphabet in the eyes of chalcedonies, in the markings of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.”
― The Lost Steps
― The Lost Steps
“Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”
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“What he had really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape.”
― Signs and Symbols
― Signs and Symbols
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from the classical literature of persia to modern iranian fiction and poetry all the way to present-day iranian-american fiction, poetry, and memoir
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