“Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.”
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“Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.”
“Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say. Does anybody's? After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, undmindful of beginning, en, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.”
“Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.”
“Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.”
“I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.”
“Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.”
“I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I piss it away so fast.”
“A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]”
“Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.”
“It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.”
“I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn't be back. And it was common knowledge among all the people there that when you graduate from high school here, you go to college or go get a job or something and do it on your own.”
“Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.”
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.”
“You know we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.”
“Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.”
“I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'”
“As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.”
“All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.”
“What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.”