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“Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.”
― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: First President and Founder of Theturkish Republic

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

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

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“I love three things, I then say. I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth.

And which do you love best?

The dream.”
― Knut Hamsun, Pan

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
― William Butler Yeats

“Her zaman yabancı insanlar bize dostlarımızdan daha çok sunan, veren kişiler. Öyleyse yaşamımızı neden yabancılar arasında geçirmiyoruz.”
― Tezer Özlü, Yaşamın Ucuna Yolculuk

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories and the City

“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“For Phyllis who made me put dragons in”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

“All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."
"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest.”
― Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

“When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”
― Dylan Thomas

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]”
― Jim Jarmusch

“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and ___"
"Well?"
"From you, sir”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
― Abraham Maslow

“Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is none the less true that Life imitates art far more than Art imitates life.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
― Gustave Flaubert