"You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again."

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Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.336, Random House

Azar Nafisi

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“Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away.”
“You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning... Look for the color and tone and texture... how the light falls on the figure, especially the face.”
“Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.”
“See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.”
“Art is a passion or it is nothing.”
“We see with our brains, not with our eyes.”
“As long as something is happening it really does not matter if it is of God, of man or of the devil.”
“And I really haven't done a damn thing.”

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