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“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
― A.P. Chekhov

“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers

“Burası bizim değil, bizi öldürmek isteyenlerin ülkesi.”
― Tezer Özlü

“If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.”
― Ian Stewart, The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“And I a smiling woman.
I am only thirty.
And like the cat I have nine times to die.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

“The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”
― T.S. Eliot

“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“God damn you to hell, Sir, no, it's indecent, there are limits! In six days, do you hear me, six days, God made the world. Yes Sir, no less Sir, the WORLD! And you are not bloody well capable of making me a pair of trousers in three months!'
'But my dear Sir, my dear Sir, look at the world and look at my TROUSERS!”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
― Henry Miller

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi