“The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.”
“While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than nature does, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.”
“This is Tehran for me: its absences were more real than its presences”
“For me the act of marriage has proven, like most of the other disastrous acts of my life, little more than a hedge against any future lack of good material.”
“Of this he was certain: to be in her presence was to know delight in a more vivid sense than ever he had before.”
“Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.”