Nastaran

“Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much.”
― Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

“I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.”
― Paul Auster, Moon Palace

“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“انسان چگونه حسی ست ، من چگونه حسی هستم وقتی خودم را ،بارانی ام را ، شال گردنم را و چمدانم را با خود حمل می کنم از جایی که نمی شناسم به جایی که فقط یک احتمال هست برایِ آسودن؟ من چگونه حسی هستم ووقتی ذهنم شاخه ،شاخه،شاخه است که من در هر شاخه اش اسیر و اسیر و اسیرم به جستجویِ نیافتن و نبودِ آنچه در جستجویش هستم”
― محمود دولت آبادی / Mahmoud Dolat Abadi, سُلوک