thirsty form beauty, even incomprehensible, overintellectual, abstract — Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita Tehran

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We were thirsty for some form of beauty, even in an incomprehensible, overintellectual, abstract film with no subtitles and censored out of recognition. There was a sense of wonder at being in a public place for the first time in years without fear or anger, being in a place with a crowd of strangers that was not a demonstration, a protest rally, a breadline or a public execution…For a brief time we experienced collectively the kind of awful beauty that can only be grasped at through extreme anguish and expressed through art.

Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran

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