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Every Fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. In all great works of fiction, regardess of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world.

Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infideilities of life. The perfection and beauty of form rebels against the ugliness and shabbiness of the subject matter.
Author: Azar Nafisi, Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran, p.47
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