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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“Doomsday, when it came, wouldn't be a physical phenomenon; it would be an
all-inclusive erasure of simulectronic circuits.”
― Daniel F. Galouye, Simulacron 3

“How do we know that even the realest of realities
wouldn't be subjective, in the final analysis? Nobody can prove his existence, can he?”
― Daniel F. Galouye, Simulacron 3

“Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.”
― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

“Roland Barthes: Roman yaratmayı çok istiyorum; hoşuma giden bir roman okuduğumda onun gibi bir şey yapmayı istiyorum, ama ben galiba şimdiye kadar romanın gerekli kıldığı kimi işlemlere direndim. Örneğin; geniş yüzey, devamlılık. Aforizmalardan, fragmanlardan oluşan bir roman yazılabilir mi? Hangi koşullarda bu mümkün olabilir? Romanın roman olarak kendisi de belli bir devamlılığa işaret etmiyor mu? Bu noktada bir direniş olduğunu düşünüyorum. İkinci direniş noktası da adlarla, özel adlarla ilişkimde bulunuyor; özel adlar uydurmayı bilmiyorum, bilemeyeceğim de ve üstelik ben romanın tamamen özel adlarla var olduğunu düşünüyorum...”
― Alain Robbe-Grillet, Why I Love Barthes

“He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.”
― G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

“I know this is insane, but I somehow wish I had been in Auschwitz with my parents so I could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.”
― Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

“I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“We tend to use knowledge as therapy.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Workingmen of all countries unite!”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“He thought his detective brain as good as the criminal's, which was true. But he fully realised the disadvantage. "The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic," he said with a sour smile, and lifted his coffee cup to his lips slowly, and put it down very quickly. He had put salt in it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

“As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Fakat bir Üsküdarlı fakirin bir piyango bileti edinmesinin ne kadar mühim bir mesele olduğunu bilmeyen bir adam da pek İstanbullu sayılmaz. Hatta pek Türkiyeli bile sayılmaz. Hatta bazan insan çok kötü düşünmesini bilen bir adamsa dünyalı bile sayılmaz ve Merih yıldızı ahalisi gibi aramızdan sıyrılıp geçenlere, kolumuzu dürtenlere, güzel kızlarla geçenlere şaşar. Ne ise mesele burada değil. Fukaralık ayıp değil...

Fukaralık ayıp değil dediğimiz zaman, hamal olalım, ıskatçı olalım; fukaralık ayıp değil dediğimiz zaman bunun ancak bir teselliden ibaret olduğunu ve fukaralığın bal gibi hem ayıp, hem günah, hem enayilik olduğunu biliriz.”
― Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Şahmerdan

“Tabiattan hiçbir zaman bir tiyatro intibaı almamıştı. Anlatalım:

Bir piyes seyrederken o piyesin içine giren, dekorla, yalancı rüzgârla, kımıldayan mor ışıkla bizi korkutan rejisördür. Bir suni hava içinde muhayyilemiz binalarını kurar, gecelerini bina eder, korkusunu rüzgârla ve mor bir ay ışığı ile getirir, içimize bırakır.

Fakat hiçbir zaman, dışarıda tabiatın içinde aynı rüzgârı, o tiyatrodaki suni rüzgârı, o koltukta duyduğumuz korkuyu ve iç ezilmesini duymayız. Belki aynı vakalar, aynı hadiseler dışarıda da geçer. Hatta başımızdan geçer. Fakat tiyatrodaki gibi kompoze bir halde değil.”
― Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Şahmerdan

“Yalnızlık dünyayı doldurmuş. Sevmek, bir insanı sevmekle başlar her şey. Burada her şey bir insanı sevmekle bitiyor.”
― Sait Faik Abasıyanık

“Sevişemeyecek olduktan sonra neden insanlar böyle birbiri içine giren şehirler yapmışlar?”
― Sait Faik Abasıyanık

“Günlerden pazartesi. Yine vapurun alt kamarasındayım. Yine hava karlı. Yine İstanbul çirkin. İstanbul mu? İstanbul çirkin şehir. Pis şehir. Hele yağmurlu günlerde. Başka günler güzel mi, değil; güzel değil. Başka günler de köprüsü balgamlıdır. Yan sokakları çamurludur, molozludur. Geceleri kusmukludur. Evler güneşe sırtını çevirmiştir. Sokaklar dardır. Esnafı gaddardır. Zengini lakayttır. İnsanlar her yerde böyle. Yaldızlı karyolalarda çift yatanlar bile tek.
Yalnızlık dünyayı doldurmuş. Sevmek, bir insanı sevmekle başlar her şey. Burda her şey bir insanı sevmekle bitiyor.”
― Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Alemdağ'da Var Bir Yılan