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I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.

I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.

Approximate author period: c. 1948 AD · modern

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Azar Nafisi
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Approximate author period: c. 1948 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1948; activity date not established; Wikidata Q258753, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q258753 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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