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"The past is magnetic. It draws us in."

"Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold."
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"Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face."

"The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period."

"Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion."

"I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion."

"How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!"

"I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."

"When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste."
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