Mah.Sa A

“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

“ما چون دو دریچه روبروی هم
آگاه ز هر بگو مگوی هم
هر روز سلام و پرسش و خنده
هر روز قرار روز آینده

عمر آیینه بهشت اما آه
بیش از شب و روز تیر و دی کوتاه

اکنون دل من شکسته و خسته ست
زیرا یکی از دریچه ها بسته ست
نه مهر فسون نه ماه جادو کرد
نفرین به سفر که هرچه کرد او کرد
نفرین به سفر که هرچه کرد او کرد”
― مهدی اخوان ثالث

“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
― Marcel Proust