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“The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. ”
― O. Henry

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.”
― Vivekananda

“When things broke down, one kept moving, for to stop was to signal the end. To complain was to waste breath. To fuss was a luxury.”
― Lavanya Sankaran, The Hope Factory

“In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

“With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

“The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

“Biliyor musun,” dedi, “sen çok kolay yenileniyorsun. Kertenkeleler gibi. Kuyruğuna basıldığında, hemen yenisini çıkarıyorsun. Ama bu güç senin içinden gelmiyor. Başka insanlardan alıyorsun.”
“Ne yani, ben vampir miyim?”
“Hayır, narsistsin belki,” dedi.”
― Mehmet Günsur, İçeriye Bakan Kim

“—I hope you don't mind my saying so, boss, but I don't think your brain is quite formed yet. How old are you?
—Thirty-five.
—Then it never will be.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Let people be, boss; don't open their eyes. And supposing you did, what'd they see? Their misery! Leave their eyes closed, boss, and let them go on dreaming!”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Having managed to break the bread in half, the bird flew away so quickly, it seemed to melt into the blue sky. Philippe looked at the part left on the ground. He'll come back for it, he thought. You always come back for what is yours.”
― Katherine Pancol, The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles

“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“Within minutes a small crowd had gathered: what could be more interesting than other people's lives?”
― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others

“They said 'ski', but they heard 'vodka'!”
― Ismail Kadare

“There is more going on, then, than the clumsy interventions of the west in Iraq and Afghanistan and the use of pressure in Ukraine, Iran and elsewhere. From east to west, the Silk Roads are rising up once more. It is easy to feel confused and disturbed by dislocation and violence . . . . What we are witnessing, however, are the birthing pains of a region that once dominated the intellectual, cultural and economic landscape and which is now re-emerging. We are seeing the signs of the world's centre of gravity shifting—back to where it lay for millennia.”
― Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World