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“Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.”
― Kurt Cobain

“What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

“Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
― Plato, The Republic

“The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”
― Plato, Plato's Republic

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
― Plato, The Republic

“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”
― Aristotle, Politics

“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“A moment's pain can be a lifetime's gain.”
― Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?

“How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“You’ve got sadness in you, I’ve got sadness in me – and my works of art are places where the two sadnesses can meet, and therefore both of us need to feel less sad.”
― Mark Rothko

“There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

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

“Çünkü büyüdükçe arzularım küçüldü, şaşkınlıklarım küçüldü, beklentilerim küçüldü. Büyüdükçe öyle bir küçüldüm ki içimde taşacak bir şey kalmadı. Büyümenin bir bedeli varsa işte bu, yarım metre uzadım, yirmi kilo aldım ve dünyadan vazgeçtim.”
― Emrah Serbes, Erken Kaybedenler

“Apartmanın girişindeki lambayı sen mi kırdın Bülent?”
“Hangisini?”
“Otomatik yanan, sensörlü lamba.”
“Hayır.”
“Komşu görmüş, yalan söyleme. Süpürge sapıyla kırmışsın dün gece.”
Önüme baktım.
“Neden kırdın?”
Cevap yok.
“Hasta mısın evladım? Söyle bana, neyin var, neden kırdın lambayı, yapma böyle…”
“Kırdımsa kırdım, ne olacak! Çok mu değerliymiş?”
“Lamba senden değerli mi evladım, lambanın amına koyayım, lamba kim? Yöneticiye de dedim. Lambanızı sikeyim, kaç paraysa veririz. Sen değerlisin benim için.”
“Beni görünce yanmıyordu baba.”
“Nasıl ya?”
“Görmezden geliyordu, yanmıyordu. Kaç sefer yok saydı beni.”
“E beni görünce de yanmıyordu bazen, böyle el sallayacaksın havaya doğru, o zaman yanıyor.”
“Hadi ya! Sahiden mi?”
“Evet. Ucuzundan takmışlar. Bizimle bir alakası yok.”
Babama sarıldım yıllar sonra.”
― Emrah Serbes, Erken Kaybedenler

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“It is as natural to die as it is to be born.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

“Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.”
― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.”
― Saadat Hasan Manto

“See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through the motions of doing what I am supposed to do... on that bankrupt morning I will simply open my notebook and there it will all be, a forgotten account with accumulated interest, paid passage back to the world out there...”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem