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

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Hayatın bizlere verip verebileceği tek ödül, tek armağan, sevgi dolu bir insandır ve biz böyle bir insanı, ilk fırsatta katlederiz. Sonra da, ömür boyu, bu asla bağışlanmayan günahın lanetini sırtımızda taşırız.”
― Aslı Erdoğan, Kabuk Adam

“Bir sehir, ancak icinde sevdiginiz biri olunca yasamaya baslar.”
― Aslı Erdoğan, Mucizevi Mandarin

“Bir insanı gerçekten sevmek, onun tuhaflıklarını, hiç kimsenin, kendisinin bile benimseyemediği, hatta fark etmediği huylarını sevmektir. İnsanların en esaslı yönleri uyumsuzluklarında saklıdır çünkü.”
― Aslı Erdoğan, Mucizevi Mandarin

“I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Hiçbir şey, her şeyi unutabilmenin verdiği huzurdan değerli olamaz.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“Nedir zaman? Bir kaza! Nedir hayat? Bir zaman! Nedir kaza? Bir hayat, yeni bir hayat!”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“Vücutlarımız, birbirimize en kolay vereceğimiz şeydir; asıl mesele, hayatımızı verebilmektir. Baştan aşağı bir aşkın olabilmek, bir aynanın içine iki kişi girip, oradan tek bir ruh olarak çıkmaktır!”
― Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Huzur

“Niçin bugünü yaşamıyorsun Mümtaz? Neden ya mazidesin ya istikbaldesin? Bu saat de var.”
― Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Huzur

“Bir zihinde yaşayanlar daima güzeldirler.”
― Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Huzur

“The instant is gone, time has carried us into the realm of memory, it was like this, no, it was not, and everything becomes what we choose to invent.”
― José Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
― Rumi

“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”
― Twyla Tharp

“Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt.”
― Mark Twain

“Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.”
― James Howe, Totally Joe

“What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"- Rob”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“You hold it in, whatever it is, until you can make it through the worst part. Then, once you’re safe, you can cry all the tears you couldn’t waste time crying before.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments