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  1. azar nafisi _ Reading Lolita in Tehran: A

    There was something, both in fiction and in his life {Nabokov}, that we instinctively related to and grasped, the possibility of a boundless freedom when all options are taken away.I could invent violin or be devoured by the void.
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  2. azar nafisi _ Reading Lolita in Tehran: A

    Poshlust, Nabokov explains, "is not only the obviously trashy but mainly the falsely important, the falsely beautiful, the falsely clever, the falsely attractive.
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  3. azar nafisi _ Reading Lolita in Tehran: A

    The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.
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  4. azar nafisi _ Reading Lolita in Tehran: A

    I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.
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