Art is as useful as bread.
Azar NafisiTags: profound
The more we die, the stronger we will become
Azar NafisiTags: propaganda-government
I'm a perfectly equipped failure.
Azar NafisiI eat my heart out alone.
Azar NafisiWe do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets.
Azar NafisiLiving in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with a man you loathe.
Azar NafisiLife in the Islamic Republic was as capricious as the month of April, when short periods of sunshine will suddenly give way to showers and storms.
Azar NafisiHow could God be so cruel as to create a Muslim woman with so much flesh and so little sex appeal?
Azar NafisiWe in ancient countries have our past—we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.
Azar NafisiAgain and again as we discussed Lolita in that class, our discussions were colored by my students' hidden personal sorrows and joys. Like tearstains on a letter, these forays into the hidden and the personal shaded all our discussions of Nabokov. And more and more I thought of that butterfly; what linked us so closely was this perverse intimacy of victim and jailer.
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