“You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.”
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“Art is as useful as bread.”
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?”
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“This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are.”
― Rooftops of Tehran
― Rooftops of Tehran
“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
― A Separate Peace
― A Separate Peace
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