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“A place is not only a geographical area; it's also a state of mind. And trees are not just trees, they are the ribs of childhood.”
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“And writing is not enough for me to declare: / I found my presence filling in absense / and whenever I searched for myself I found others / and whenever I searched for them I found only myself / the stranger / Am I a crowd of one?”
― Mural
― Mural
“Strangers are known by the disconnected way they gaze in the water, by their introversion and their hesitant walk.
Natives proceed with direct steps toward a clear goal.
A stranger walks in rounds, bewildered.”
― Almond Blossoms and Beyond. Trans. By Mohammad Shaheen
Natives proceed with direct steps toward a clear goal.
A stranger walks in rounds, bewildered.”
― Almond Blossoms and Beyond. Trans. By Mohammad Shaheen
“Exiles have a shared smell: the smell of longing for something else; a smell that remembers another smell.”
― In the Presence of Absence
― In the Presence of Absence
“Dearly I yearn for my mother’s bread,
My mother’s coffee,
Mother’s brushing touch.
Childhood is raised in me,
Day upon day in me.
And I so cherish life
Because if I died
My mother’s tears would shame me.”
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My mother’s coffee,
Mother’s brushing touch.
Childhood is raised in me,
Day upon day in me.
And I so cherish life
Because if I died
My mother’s tears would shame me.”
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