"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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Source : "The Blind Owl". Book by Sadegh Hedayat, 1958.

Sadegh Hedayat

#Wall Quotes #Writing Quotes #Light Quotes

“The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; itâ€™s wanting what you get,”
“...those who think that faith is superior to reason, and try to reason me into thinking that way; why don't they faith me into it?”
“Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!”
“It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed.”
“Ultimately everyone, no matter who you are, we all at our core want to just know that we matter.”
“To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!”
“Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.”
“It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and fraternity in the world today than there was one thousand years ago. One might arguably suggest that the opposite is true. I seek to paint no idyll of the worlds before historical capitalism. They were worlds of little liberty, little equality, and little fraternity. The only question is whether historical capitalism represented progress in these regards, or regression.”

Source : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.100, Verso

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