-----Azar Nafisi，《在德黑蘭讀羅莉塔》，頁172-173
"I had a feeling that day that I was losing something, that I was mourning a death that had not yet occurred. I felt as if all things personal were being crushed like small wildflowers to make way for a more ornate garden, where everything would be tame and organized. I had never felt this sense of loss when I was a student in the States. In all those years, my yearning was tied to the certainty that home was mine for the having, that I could go back anytime I wished. It was not until I had reached home that I realized the true meaning of exile. As I walked those dearly beloved, dearly remembered streets, I felt I was squashing the memories that lay underfoot."
-----Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, p. 145
「我反覆幻想著〈權利法案〉中多加了一條：幻想的自由。我逐漸相信，若缺乏想像的自由或不受限制使用想像作品的權利，真正的民主就不存在。一個人若要擁有完整的生命，必須能夠公開塑造和表達內心的世界、夢想、思想與欲望，並時常能在公眾與私人領域之間進行對話。不然我們怎知自己存在過，有感覺，有慾望，會怨恨，也會恐懼？
「我們老說事實事實，然而事實若非透過情緒、思想與感受重組創造，在我們看來事實便不是完整的事實。在我看來，我們彷彿不曾真正存在，或只部分存在，因為我們無法以想像將自己具體化並與世界產生互動，因為我們讓想像之作淪為政治伎倆的工具。」
"I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination. I have come to believe that genuine democracy cannot exist without the freedom to imagine and the right to use imaginative works without any restrictions. To have a whole life, one must have the possibility of publicly shaping and expressing private worlds, dreams, thoughts and desires, of constantly having access to a dialogue between the public and private worlds. How else do we know that we have existed, felt, desired, hated, feared?
-----Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, p.p. 338-339
「我反覆幻想著〈權利法案〉中多加了一條：幻想的自由。我逐漸相信，若缺乏想像的自由或不受限制使用想像作品的權利，真正的民主就不存在。一個人若要擁有完整的生命，必須能夠公開塑造和表達內心的世界、夢想、思想與欲望，並時常能在公眾與私人領域之間進行對話。不然我們怎知自己存在過，有感覺，有慾望，會怨恨，也會恐懼？
「我們老說事實事實，然而事實若非透過情緒、思想與感受重組創造，在我們看來事實便不是完整的事實。在我看來，我們彷彿不曾真正存在，或只部分存在，因為我們無法以想像將自己具體化並與世界產生互動，因為我們讓想像之作淪為政治伎倆的工具。」
-----Azar Nafisi，《在德黑蘭讀羅莉塔》，頁399-400
"I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination. I have come to believe that genuine democracy cannot exist without the freedom to imagine and the right to use imaginative works without any restrictions. To have a whole life, one must have the possibility of publicly shaping and expressing private worlds, dreams, thoughts and desires, of constantly having access to a dialogue between the public and private worlds. How else do we know that we have existed, felt, desired, hated, feared?
"We speak of facts, yet facts exist only partially to us if they are not repeated and re-created through emotions, thoughts and feelings. To me it seemed as if we had not really existed, or only half existed, because we could not imaginatively realize ourselves and communicate to the world, because we had used works of imagination to serve as handmaidens to some political ploy."
-----Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, p.p. 338-339
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