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“HİÇ YOKTAN”
― Anonymous

“Ben cenneti hep bir çeşit kütüphane olarak düşlemişimdir.”
― Jorge Louis Borges

“Voici seulement ce que je veux dire : Vous avez une montre, n’est-ce pas ? Eh bien, cassez un ressort, et allez la porter à ce citoyen Cornut en le priant de la raccommoder. Il vous répondra, en jurant, qu’il n’est pas horloger. Mais, si quelque chose se trouve détraqué dans cette machine infiniment compliquée qui s’appelle la France, il se croit le plus capable des hommes pour la réparer séance tenante.”
― Anonymous

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
― Samuel Johnson

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Seksen yaşına geldiğinde, korkunç bir gerçekliğin farkına varmıştı: Gözleri, artık görevlerini gereğince yerine getiremiyordu. Gerçi henüz görme gücünü bütünüyle yitirmemişti ama artık hiç okuyamıyordu. Onun yerinde başka biri olsa bütün bütüne kör olmayı beklerdi. Eratosthenes'e gelince, kitaplarından ayrılmak zorunda kalışını, yeterince körlük saydı, kendi istenciyle yemeden içmeden kesildi ve birkaç gün içinde ölüp gitti.”
― Elias Canetti

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Yeniden dirilecek olsan ayvayı yerdin valla Jerry.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“Zaten sözcüklerden gayrı ne var ki...”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“In almost every other developed country, the schools with the poorest students had more teachers per student; the opposite was true in only four countries: the United States, Israel, Slovenia, and Turkey, where the poorest schools had fewer teachers per student.”
― Amanda Ripley, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

“Kids meet the expectations you set for them,”
― Amanda Ripley, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

“To say “I love you,” Yanomami Indians of the Amazon say, “Ya pihi irakema,” meaning “I have been contaminated by your being”—a part of you has entered me, and it lives and grows.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer. A New Way of Life

“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. Mark Twain”
― Gerd Gigerenzer, Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions

“In the words of the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, “Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”19”
― Gerd Gigerenzer, Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions

“Life is simply a particular state of organized instability.”
― Addy Pross, What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges