

“Each of us sees God differently. Some prophets evoke a vengeful and pitiless God, others a merciful one. It was the latter that was revealed to us at school, as we learned to write our first words: water, bread, father. The God I have held within since I was five years old is compassionate and kindly.”
― Lessons with Kiarostami
― Lessons with Kiarostami
“Isn’t the earth, trembling under your feet
lonelier than you are?”
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lonelier than you are?”
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“Despite all efforts, February just slips away, though being a leap year there is one extra day to observe.”
― Year of the Monkey
― Year of the Monkey
“All this buttoning and unbuttoning”
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“The universe is the rotting corpse of a God who killed himself.”
― Die Philosophie der Erlösung: Erster Band
― Die Philosophie der Erlösung: Erster Band
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