Jouwani Mahdyar by Aghajani featuring Bahman Ghobadi (from No One Knows About Persian Cats)
Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with a man you loathe.
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| — | From Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi |
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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| — | From Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi |
You know, I feel all my life has been a series of departures.
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| — | From Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi |
We were unhappy. We compared our situation to our own potentials, to what we could have had, and somehow there was little consolation in the fact that millions of people were unhappier than we were. Why should other people’s misery make us happier or more content?
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| — | From Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi |
