Sadegh Hedayat Quotes
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I have finally learned that I must remain silent as much as possible. I must always keep my thoughts to myself.
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My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.
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If there was no death, everyone would wish for it.
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What relationship could exist between the lives of the fools and healthy rabble who were well, who slept well, who performed the sexual act well,…
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Only death does not lie.
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The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life.…
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[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.
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The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its…
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Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed…
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I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.
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In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.
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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 I…
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