Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

“Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A q…”

“قرر أنّ يراقب بعناية كيف يمكن لشخص قريب إلى هذا الحد أنّ يقدر برمشة عين أن ينسحب …”

“On a warm spring day, a galloping horse was only too clearly a sweating animal …”

“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written …”