Top 180 Kamand Kojouri Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I think falling in love is like discovering the magic of books. You think to yourself, ’how was I living before this?”

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152. “Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what you have done is silly compared to what you are doing to your mind: taking a sacred moment to be alive and desecrating it by being angry.”

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153. “When you get shy, you’re simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself.”

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154. “You have made me a love poet.”

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155. “For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as not to let the silence illumine the fact that reading, they had gained something – distance, a lesson, a companion, a new world – but now, after the last full stop, they had lost something palpable and felt a little emptier than before.”

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156. “No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the person you aspire to be.”

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157. “Truth is unoriginal.”

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158. “Love is the most integral function of our lives. That is why LOVE is only one letter away from LIVE.”

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159. “All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else, lovers read poetry. Why? Because we fell in love. And then we fell in love with love.”

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160. “She placed her hand on her chest and thought, ‘So this is what the poets write about’.”

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161. “Because even if you spend your life chasing the immaterial, listening to the most exquisite classical music and getting drunk off of stunning vistas of mountains and waterfalls, all of it isn’t worth a dime if you aren’t sharing it with someone. Everything amounts to that. True, we must experience most things in solitude to grow, create, destroy and grow again, but our pleasure and joy reaches a threshold in isolation. It is the worst thing to become an island. One must become the whole world.”

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162. “God’s existence is reaffirmed once we fall in with another.”

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163. “You must have hope in a better future and have faith in this hope. But then you must forget your hope and focus on this moment now.”

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164. “If I had to choose between all the books in the world and you, then I would choose to read your body for the rest of my life.”

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165. “People don’t remember lessons. They remember stories.”

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166. “Enjoy this moment. The ultimate fulfilment of the dream will not come close to the dream. Enjoy it.”

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167. “Each of us is like all of us and like no one else.”

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168. “Love isn’t blind. Maybe we are all born blind and love finally gives us sight.”

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169. “Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It’s time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love.”

— Kamand Kojouri

170. “If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.”

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171. “Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.”

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172. “Sadness is an invitation to God.”

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173. “You’ll only know the answers once you love.”

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174. “Our minds have this strange ability to make associations using ourselves as a reference point. They create our identities based on our relation to people and things. They aim for control because ownership falsely promises us an elevated sense of self. But this is exactly the opposite of love. When we fall in love, we disidentify and get lost for a little while in a song, a beautiful painting, and most of all, we get lost in our lover. And through their love, we find our true infinite selves.”

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175. “Why is your skin the best feeling in the world?”

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176. “Two great things happened to me. One was that I survived. The other was that I met you, because I knew why.”

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177. “The only thing that comes close to defining me correctly is my love.”

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178. “There are some days we can claim and there are other days that claim us.”

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179. “With you, I am. Without you, I am not.”

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180. “Break open your heart so that I may enter it.”

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181. “If on any given day you don’t cry from rejoicing in the beauty of the world, then you have not lived that day.”

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182. “I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew.”

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183. “Work. Good, honest work, whether it’s working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sense of divinity at play. The only prerequisite is that whatever the work is, it is done sincerely and in congruence with the soul’s true origin and intent, then, without any effort, one experiences a flow, wherein one feels a part of the plan of the entire universe.”

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184. “A man’s shortcoming lies in the belief that he must always assert his manliness. A woman’s shortcoming lies in the belief that she must always repress it.”

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185. “I don’t want to be remembered for my work. I want to be remembered for my love.”

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186. “Knowing you, I understood myself.”

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187. “Your love opened up a whole world that no amount of books or wisdom could ever do.”

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188. “A negative outlook is dangerous. When you say, “It can’t get any worse!” You’re essentially challenging the universe to do exactly that.”

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189. “God begets love.”

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190. “The reason as to why a human cannot give birth to himself is because he needs someone to help him. We are altricial, or helpless at birth, because we have to depend on others so that later in life when we are capable, we help those in need. And this is very much part of the circle of life.”

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191. “How is it possible, you ask, for love to be greater than the person who does the loving? That’s because love defies the rules of reason. It is the only exception.”

— Kamand Kojouri