Quote by Azar Nafisi Download Open image ““THOSE WHO ARE CLOSE TO US, when they die, divide our world.”” — Azar Nafisi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Purpose is the great divider that separates those who are simply living, from those who are truly alive.” — Alex Rogers Copy Share Image
“If we, who are all here together on this earth, don’t take care of one another, then who else will? It is our duty.” — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
“The world is divided between those who stay and those who leave.” — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“In these dangerous times, where it seems that the world is ripping apart at the seams, we all can learn how to survive from… — Jonathan Larson Copy Share Image
“boundaries which divide Life and Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and where the other begins?” — Andrew Barger Copy Share Image
“Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they should? It is because the human spirit know, deep down,… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“No matter what age, race, or economic status we hold, death touches us all at one time or another.” — Gail McHugh Copy Share Image
“A novel is not an allegory...it is a sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel; you inhale the experience. So start breathing.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share
“I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination. I have come to believe that genuine democracy cannot exist without the freedom to imagine and the right to use imaginative works without any restrictions. To have a whole life, one must have the possibility of… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share
“Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the ones who had taken it away--become afraid,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
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… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Such an act [testifying for an accused prison guard of the Shah's regime] can only be accomplished by someone who is engrossed in literature, has learned that every individual has different dimensions to his personality… Those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account. It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share
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… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“That first day I asked my students what they thought fiction should accomplish, why one should bother to read fiction at all. It was an odd way to start, but I did succeed in getting their attention. I explained that we would in the course of the semester read and discuss many different authors, but that one thing these authors… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share
“you cannot just be stubborn against something, you need to be stubborn for something as well” — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly called reality.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“You ask me what it means to be irrelevant? The feeling is akin to visiting your old house as a wandering ghost with unfinished business. Imagine going back: the structure is familiar ,but the door is now metal instead of wood,the walls have been painted a garish pink ,the easy chair you loved so much is gone .Your office is… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share
![“In these dangerous times, where it seems that the world is ripping apart at the seams, we all can learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day and [we] should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of…” quote by Jonathan Larson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ea1/jonathan-larson-21281_bond_in-these-dangerous-times-where-it-seems_1146045.jpg)
