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I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow.
There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.

The silence depressed me. it wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
I knew perfectly well the cars were making a noise, and the people in them and behind the lit windows of the buildings were making a noise, and the river was making a noise, but I couldn’t hear a thing. The city hung in my window., flat as a poster, glittering and blinking, but it might as well not have been there at all.

we should have known, watching our fathers.
we should have known, watching our mothers.
they did not know, they too were not prepared to
teach.
we were too naive to ignore their
counsel
and now we have embraced their
ignorance as our own

عصر شهادت مدتهاست سپری شده.ما در عصری هستیم _که همه فقط شاهدند.

“خانواده ای که پناهگاهی برای فرار از جامعه باشد،در واقع بازتابی از همان جامعه از کار در می آید.”

“It’s just a little trick, but there is a long story connected with it which it would take too long to tell.”