Best Azar Nafisi Sayings
- The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and… Comparison
- She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time. Both
- With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem. Convincing
- Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. Denies
- The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your… Act
- 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… Aspect
- A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor… Absolutes
- The reason I am so popular is that I give others back what they need to find in themselves. You need me not because I… Articulate
- It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one. Cause
- None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them. All
- In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life,… Act
- A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this… Advocates
- The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into… Beauty
- I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain. Alone
- I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened… Articulate
- Imagine you are walking down a leafy path…The sun is receding, and you are walking alone, caressed by the breezy light of the late afternoon.… Abruptly
- The more we die, the stronger we will become Die
- Art is as useful as bread. Art
- I'm a perfectly equipped failure. Equipped
- I eat my heart out alone. Alone
- We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual,… Discovery
- We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of… Americans
- Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job. Academic
- People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the message,… Austen