Limits

Perhaps I will never be able to move the mountain out of the way. Perhaps I will never be able, across all the deserts of the earth, to make a garden of red roses grow green. Perhaps there was never as much power in me as I thought. But without a doubt I was not a piece of wood, I am not. I will not be a piece of wood until the moment of death. A docile piece of wood! ridiculously docile to every force outside of me ...

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Original Persian

حدود

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شاید هرگزنتوانم کوه را از سر راه بردارم . شاید هرگز نتوانم در تمام بیابان زمین باغ گل سرخ سبز کنم . شاید هرگز آن قدر ها که گمان می کردم قدرت نبوده درمن . اما بی تردید چوب نبودم ، نیستم . چوب نخواهم بود تا لحظه ی مرگ . چوبی تابع ! تابع مضحک هر نیرویی بیرون از من ...
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