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“Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.”
― Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
― Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
“Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I thought, looking at Antony and Cleopatra; and when people compare Shakespeare and Jane Austen, they may mean that the minds of both had consumed all impediments; and for that reason we do not know Jane Austen and we do not know Shakespeare, and for that reason Jane Austen pervades every word that she wrote, and so does Shakespeare.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
― Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
“I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
“In every religion, you find the same extremists.”
― The Complete Persepolis
― The Complete Persepolis
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