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![Azar Nafisi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1414525029i/5151._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.”
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
![Shannon L. Alder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647739446i/1391130._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“When you think yours is the only true path you forever chain yourself to judging others and narrow the vision of God. The road to righteousness and arrogance is a parallel road that can intersect each other several times throughout a person's life. It’s often hard to recognize one road from another. What makes them different is the road to righteousness is paved with the love of humanity. The road to arrogance is paved with the love of self.”
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![Sarah Dunn](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1250372644i/61859._UX200_CR0,23,200,200_.jpg)
“You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.”
― Secrets to Happiness
― Secrets to Happiness
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.”
― Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
― Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
![Stephen Levine](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1391453314i/4169._UY200_CR12,0,200,200_.jpg)
“[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go.... Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)”
― A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
― A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
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