One must struggle in this cataract of shit until disgust with living suffocates us.” (‘Sadeq Hedayat: His Life and Works’ by Homa Katouzian, in Three Drops of Blood by Sadeq Hedayat, translated by Deborah Miller Mostaghel, edited by Nushin Arbabzadah, 2008, p. vii) Hedayat was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. He never married. Iraj Bashiri mentions in The Life of Sadeq Hedayat (2019) that he had female friends.