“There are people whose death agonies begin at the age of twenty, while others die only at the very end, calmly and peacefully, like a lamp in which all the oil has been consumed.” — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
“Life as it proceeds reveals, cooly and dispassionately, what lies behind the mask that each man wears. It would seem that everyone possesses several… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
“A story is only an outlet for frustrated aspirations, for aspirations which the story-teller conceives in accordance with a limited stock of spiritual resources… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life. — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
“In the course of my life I have discovered that a fearful abyss lies between me and other people and have realized that my… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
“We are the children of death and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life.” — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
“There are people whose death agonies begin at the age of twenty, while others die only at the very end, calmly and peacefully, like… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
“The person that I had been existed no longer. If I had been able to conjure him up and speak to him he would… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
I have finally learned that I must remain silent as much as possible. I must always keep my thoughts to myself. — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
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