I regarded her as a woman, though at the same time she carried within her something that was beyond human.

Sadegh Hedayat and Naveed Noori, The Blind Owl [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Hedayat Noori Blind Owl regarded woman carried within beyond human

Consider also:

  1. “From the time I was bedridden I had awakened into a strange and unbelievable world in which I had no need for the world of the rabble—a world that was within me, a world full of unknowns, and it was as if I was forced to examine and inspect all its cracks and crevices.”
  2. “is not the entirety of life one absurd story, one unbelievable and foolish tale? Am I not writing my own fable and tale? A story is nothing more than a way of escaping unfulfilled dreams,—dreams that have not been reached, dreams that each storyteller has imagined according to their own inherited and constrained state of mind.”
  3. “In life there are wounds that, like leprosy, silently scrape at and consume the soul, in solitude”
  4. “Good and Evil, then, if they are to find a place at all in the Universe as regarded from the Buddhist point of view, must be regarded as particular modifications of the States of Consciousness”
  5. “I find I am more interested in learning about the woman than the magician. I hope that is acceptable.” “It’s perfect,” Celia says.