“Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.”
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Ismail I
Ismail I was the founder and first shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1501 until his death in 1524. His reign is one of the most vital in the history of Iran, and the Safavid era is often considered the beginning of modern Iranian history. Under Ismail, Iran was unified under native rule for the first time since the Islamic conquest of the country eight-and-a-half centuries earlier.
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politics · Shah of Safavid Iran from 1501 to 1524 · governor · monarch · military leader · head of state · politician · poet · writer · also Ismail I, Ismail Safavi, Hatayi, I
Born 17 July 1487 · Died 23 May 1524 · Q214559
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I became familiar with literature before I knew freedom, so that it was literature that led me to liberty, not the other way around. Faith in literature and in the creative process brings protection. It generates antibodies that allow you to struggle against state terror.
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“I became familiar with literature before I knew freedom, so that it was literature that led me to liberty, not the other way around. Faith in literature and in the creative process brings protection. It generates antibodies that allow you to struggle against state terror.”
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“It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.”
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“And everything would be different, different.”
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“If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?”
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“To tell the truth, this was one of the few cases in which she had not told him just what she was thinking. Usually, she let him know whatever thoughts happened to come to her, and indeed he never took it amiss if she let slip a word that might pain him, because when all was said and done that was the price one paid for sincerity.”
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“The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.”
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“Can one move an empire as if it were a house?”
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“Thick smoke like a herd of black horses was rising over the massive building and being blown around by the wind.”
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1524· 1 entry
Died 1524-05-23.
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1501· 1 entry
Career landmark: list of Safavid monarchs (1501–1524).
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1487· 1 entry
Born 1487-07-17.
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