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Azar Nafisi Quote: “Reading a novel is not an exercise in censure.”

151. “Reading a novel is not an exercise in censure.”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless.”

152. “It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless.”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “You see this is a chair, but when you come to describe it, you do so from where you are positioned, and from your own perspective, and so you cannot say there is only one way of seeing a chair, can you? No, obviously not. If you cannot say this about so simple an object as a chair, how can you possibly pass an absolute judgment on any given individual?”

153. “You see this is a chair, but when you come to describe it, you do so from where you are positioned, and from your own perspective, and so you cannot say there is only one way of seeing a chair, can you? No, obviously not. If you cannot say this about so simple an object as a chair, how can you possibly pass an absolute judgment on any given individual?”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “I turned on the flashlight; it cut a small circle of light from the darkness around me.”

154. “I turned on the flashlight; it cut a small circle of light from the darkness around me.”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “This is Tehran for me: its absences were more real than its presences.”

155. “This is Tehran for me: its absences were more real than its presences.”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “As Fitzgerald puts it, “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”

156. “As Fitzgerald puts it, “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “Books know no limits or borders, they create longings and unexpected passions, they pose more questions than answers. They represent the unruly world, filled with contradictions and complications, a world that threatens the totalitarian mindset by being beyond its control.”

157. “Books know no limits or borders, they create longings and unexpected passions, they pose more questions than answers. They represent the unruly world, filled with contradictions and complications, a world that threatens the totalitarian mindset by being beyond its control.”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. – Henry James.”

158. “We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. – Henry James.”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “She is a tyrant much in the way of a bad novelist, who shapes his characters according to his own ideology or desires and never allows them the space to become themselves. It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.”

159. “She is a tyrant much in the way of a bad novelist, who shapes his characters according to his own ideology or desires and never allows them the space to become themselves. It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted.”

160. “The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted.”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “We are all capable of becoming the blind censor, of imposing our visions and desires on others.”

161. “We are all capable of becoming the blind censor, of imposing our visions and desires on others.”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “Resentment had erased all ambiguity in our encounters with people like him; we had been polarized into “us” and “them.”

162. “Resentment had erased all ambiguity in our encounters with people like him; we had been polarized into “us” and “them.”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “These characters depend to such a high degree on their own sense of integrity that for them, victory has nothing to do with happiness. It has more to do with a settling within oneself, a movement inward that makes them whole. Their reward is not happiness... what James’s characters gain is self-respect.”

163. “These characters depend to such a high degree on their own sense of integrity that for them, victory has nothing to do with happiness. It has more to do with a settling within oneself, a movement inward that makes them whole. Their reward is not happiness... what James’s characters gain is self-respect.”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop – there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages and mischievously leave the novel tingling in our ears.”

164. “And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop – there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages and mischievously leave the novel tingling in our ears.”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “After all, it takes two to create a relationship, and when you make half the population invisible, the other half suffers as well.”

165. “After all, it takes two to create a relationship, and when you make half the population invisible, the other half suffers as well.”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “It is said that the personal is political. That is not true, of course. At the core of the fight for political rights is the desire to protect ourselves, to prevent the political from intruding on our individual lives. Personal and political are interdependent but not one and the same thing.”

166. “It is said that the personal is political. That is not true, of course. At the core of the fight for political rights is the desire to protect ourselves, to prevent the political from intruding on our individual lives. Personal and political are interdependent but not one and the same thing.”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “What we have here is the first lesson in democracy: all individuals, no matter how contemptible, have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

167. “What we have here is the first lesson in democracy: all individuals, no matter how contemptible, have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “Almost every day, my students would recount such stories. We laughed over them, and later felt angry and sad, although we repeated them endlessly at parties and over cups of coffee, in breadlines, in taxis. It was as if the sheer act of recounting these stories gave us some control over them; the deprecating tone we used, our gestures, even our hysterical laughter seemed to reduce their hold over our lives.”

168. “Almost every day, my students would recount such stories. We laughed over them, and later felt angry and sad, although we repeated them endlessly at parties and over cups of coffee, in breadlines, in taxis. It was as if the sheer act of recounting these stories gave us some control over them; the deprecating tone we used, our gestures, even our hysterical laughter seemed to reduce their hold over our lives.”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “A good novel is one that shows complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all those characters to have a voice, in this way a novel is called democratic – not that it advocates democracy but that by nature is is so.”

169. “A good novel is one that shows complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all those characters to have a voice, in this way a novel is called democratic – not that it advocates democracy but that by nature is is so.”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “Dreams, Mr Nyazi, are perfect ideals, complete in themselves. How can you impose them on a constantly changing, imperfect, incomplete reality?”

170. “Dreams, Mr Nyazi, are perfect ideals, complete in themselves. How can you impose them on a constantly changing, imperfect, incomplete reality?”

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Azar Nafisi Quote: “The more I discovered the lyrical quality of our lives, the more my own life became a web of fiction.”

171. “The more I discovered the lyrical quality of our lives, the more my own life became a web of fiction.”

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