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“A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”
― Francis Bacon

“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
― Samuel Beckett, Murphy

“Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!”
― Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“He yawned; he had finished the day, and he had also finished with his youth. Various tried and proved rules of conduct had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, flat seriousness, stoicism--all the aids whereby a man may savor, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life... 'I have attained the age of reason.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

“Kusur benim imzamdır.”
― İhsan Oktay Anar, Suskunlar

“I knew everything of the law.
Little of life
and less of love”
― Anthony Neilson, Neilson Plays:1: Normal; Penetrator; Year of the Family; Night Before Christmas; Censor

“You choose to believe that I am insane
because you choose not to believe in evil”
― Anthony Neilson, Plays 1: Normal / Penetrator / Year of the Family / The Night Before Christmas / The Censor

“And I think a long time ago there were big stories. Stories so big you could live your whole life in them. The Powerful Hands of the Gods and Fate. The Journey to Enlightenment. The March of Socialism. But they all died or the world grew up or grew senile or forgot them, so now we're making up our own stories. Little stories. But we've each got one.”
― Mark Ravenhill