quotes

he was a persian poet who lived from 1315-1390.

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in searching for hafiz quotes yesterday morning, i found this one:



All these words are just a front.
What I would really like to do
 is chain you to my body,
then sing for days & days & days.


during the daily phone chat with my mother i read it to her.

silence. crickets. and the like.

to which i replied, it's okay mom. i'm 24. i'm young enough to still think that sentiment is unbelievably sexy and still just a wee bit (or a lot) beyond my comprehension. but old enough to sure as hell wanna figure it out.


oh that hafiz. he gets me everytime.

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i tried the key in all the doors,
even though he said he didn't recognize it.
it's not that i didn't trust him,
because i did.
it's that at the end of my search
i wanted to be able to say:
i don't know how i could have tried harder.



extremely loud and incredibely close
jonathan safran foer





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so many people enter and leave your life.
hundreds of thousands of people.
you have to keep the door open,
so they can come in.
but it also means
you have to let them go.

extremely loud & incredibly close
jonathan safran foer

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