Mary McCarthy book Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
"To the Reader"
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957)
“Finally I realized that I was a demi-god and that I was beyond all the low, petty desires of mankind. I felt the eternal flux within me. What is eternity? Eternity for me was playing hide-and-seek with that whore on the banks of the Suren river; it was a momentary closing of my eyes when I hid my head in her lap.”
— Sadegh Hedayat, book The Blind Owl
The Blind Owl
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