What relationship could exist between the lives of the fools and healthy rabble who were well, who slept well, who performed the sexual act well, who had never felt the wings of death on their face every moment - what relationship could exist between them and one like me who has arrived at the end of his rope and who knows that he will pass away gradually and tragically?

"The Blind Owl". Book by Sadegh Hedayat (1937), translated by Iraj Bashiri, 1974.