The Street of Mists Quotes

“For Fabrice emancipation meant being able to do what pleases you with your body, without morality attached, is what I gathered.”
― Mariam Karim, The Street of Mists

“.... I have come to Paris to solve the enigma of my mother’s life ... For my own sake. I want to breathe the air she breathed, see the places she saw, live perhaps as she lived, so perhaps her death might begin to make sense to me….and I may become closer to her. Her death ,an unnecessary sacrifice. I understand now that it was my father’s fear that led to everything...my dear, lovely Daddy! He lived, grew up in a town that trembled, day after day, with the fear of “the other”. A town politically alive with fear—the fear of those who wish to annihilate you. The Hindus feared the Muslims and the Muslims feared the Hindus. My father is fighting a difficult battle, although he wants to deny the existence of a battle, on the face of it. My mother found it easier, to dismiss it all as absurd, which it is, actually. Fear is the real enemy, it makes Reality Absurd, it can kill you, as it did Rahul. . Murdered by the Absurd”
― Mariam Karim, The Street of Mists

“And then, Paris is such a beautiful city, like a jewel, set so carefully. I felt like a ship that wants to cast anchor. To drift for a while, as the past, the present, the future all mingle, and I could just be. And say je suis. I am.”
― Mariam Karim, The Street of Mists

“Paris is a timeless city. Or is it a city caught in time? Like a flower in a candle made of glycerine and clear wax…immovable, glowing…and the people, repeating their days, over, over, over again, walking the same boulevards, frequenting the same cafes, haunting the same hotels, traversing the same gardens…”
― Mariam Karim, The Street of Mists

“What if we deemed Art to precede Life? Considered Art the “Primary Phenomenon?”
The life of a painting, has been seriously underrated….. it contains philosophy, politics, emotion…and aesthetics, and those strange interactive elements we sometimes refer to as inspiration…but the source of these is unknown, for little electrical impulses running over the earth can act upon an artist’s person…and bits of knowledge, bits of perhaps unimportant information get translated upon a canvas…”
― Mariam Karim, The Street of Mists