Azar Nafisi: Quotes about dreams

Azar Nafisi is Iranaian academic and writer. Explore interesting quotes on dreams.
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“Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.”

Azar Nafisi book Reading Lolita in Tehran

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran

“What we in Iran had in common with Fitzgerald was this dream that became our obsession and took over our reality, this terrible, beautiful dream, impossible in its actualization, for which any amount of violence might be justified or forgiven.”

Azar Nafisi book Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)

“Dreams, Mr. Nyazi, are perfect ideals, complete in themselves. How can you impose them on a constantly changing, imperfect, incomplete reality? You would become a Humbert, destroying the object of your dream; or a Gatsby, destroying yourself.”

Azar Nafisi book Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)

“Yes, the novel is about concrete living relationships, a man's love for a woman, a woman's betrayal of that love. But it is also about wealth, its great attraction as well as its destructive power, the carelessness that comes with it, and, yes, it is about the American dream, a dream of power and wealth, the beguiling light of Daisy's house and the port of entry to America. It is also about loss, about the perishability of dreams once they are transformed into hard reality. It is the longing, its immateriality, that makes the dream pure.”

Azar Nafisi book Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)