11 Quotes by Hassan Blasim

You can’t understand beauty without peace of mind and you can’t get close to the truth without fear.

The pleasure I found in reading books was disconcerting... I felt anxious about every new piece of information. I would latch onto one particular detail and start look for references and other versions of it in other writings. I remembered, for example, that for quite some time I tracked down the subject of kissing. I read and read and felt dizzy with the subject, as if I had eaten a psychotropic fruit.