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“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 jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

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“تهدَّج صوت الإمام وهو يتلو: "قل يا عبادي الذين أسرفوا على أنفسهم لا تقنطوا من رحمة الله إن الله يغفر..."
لم يتحمل قلبه العجوز وقع الكلمات. خرجت دمعتان رغما عنه. سكت في خشوع.
سارع الرجل الضخم الواقف في الصف الأول مكملا في ثبات: الذنوب جميعا...”
― أحمد الديب, حكايات بعد النوم

tags: خشوع, رقة, غلظة, قلوب

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“Despite our tiffs, despite her nastiness, despite all the fuss and faces she made, and the vulgarity, and the danger, and the horrible hopelessness of it all, I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise - a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames - but still a paradise.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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“يعاقب الله الملوك الظالمين بموت أبنائهم وفساد عقولهم ، ولكنهم يحكموننا فنجني ثمار جنونهم ؟! يصعب أن يفهم الإنسان حكمة الله ، لغزها عميق عسير”
― رضوى عاشور, ثلاثية غرناطة

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“Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

tags: hatred, iran, islamic-republic, sex

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