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“You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.”
― Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About

“Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels--the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.”
― Johnny Cash

“The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.”
― William Hazlitt, Selected Essays, 1778-1830

“He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

“'Shoot the wounded... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wounded.' As if they haven't suffered enough, we add to it by gossiping and treating hurt people like outcasts." ..."I think we killed Ronnie's spirit... Instead of coming alongside her and supporting her through this, I failed her...”
― Lynn Dove, Shoot the Wounded

“Öfkeyle değil, gülmeyle öldürür insan. Hadi, öldürelim ağırlığın ruhunu!
Yürümeyi öğrendim: o zamandan beri koşturuveriyorum. Uçmayı öğrendim: o zamandan beri kimse itmeden havalanıveriyorum.
Hafifim şimdi, uçuyorum şimdi, kendimle baş başa görüyorum kendimi, şimdi bir tanrı dans ediyor bende.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“دوستان، مرا می گویید که بر سر ذوق و پسند جای جدال نیست؟ اما زندگی سراسر جدالی‌ست بر سر ذوق و پسند!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his going under.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“تو این را خوب می دانی که آن شیطان ترسویی که در توست خوش دارد دست ها را به زانو گره زند و خود را یله کند. همین شیطان ترسو تورا برآن داشت که بگویی: خدایی هست”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“One knows a little too much about everybody. And we can even see through some men, and yet we can by no means pass through them.”
― Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Anlamıyorlar beni, bu kulaklara göre ağız değilim ben.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra