“Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.”
― Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
― Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
“Everywhere and always ugliness has its beautiful aspects; it is thrilling to discover them where nobody else has noticed them.”
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“Time has a way of eternally looping us in the same configurations. Like fruit flies, we are unable to register the patterns. Just because we are the crest of the wave does not mean the ocean does not exist. What has been before will be again.”
― Split Tooth
― Split Tooth
“I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.”
― Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
― Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
“We are our ancestors. The spiritual umbilicus is apparent to all. The dead look upon us with the pure love of a mother’s gaze. But the dead love is even more because of our flawed flesh and eternal confusion. The removal from form allows for total and complete unconditional love. We carry our dead with us like helium balloons. There is no breaking the umbilicus.”
― Split Tooth
― Split Tooth
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