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“Ateşin icadından önce ölüp cehenneme giden mağara adamının hayreti içindeyim”
― Murat Menteş

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
Too Short for those who Rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is not.”
― Henry van Dyke, Music and Other Poems

“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
― William Shakespeare

“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“Git ve benim göremediklerimi gör, benim dokunamadıklarıma dokun, sevemediklerimi sev ve hatta, bu babanın çekmeye cesaret edemediği acıları çek. Dünyadan ve onun binbir halinden korkma.”
― İhsan Oktay Anar, Puslu Kıtalar Atlası

“...belki de, erkeğin kadını seçtiği bir cemiyet batarken, kadının erkeği seçtiği cemiyet refâha eriyordu. Bunun doğruluğunu ölçmek için, bedenî sâiklerine gem vuramayan paşayı seçen Padişahımız'ın memleketiyle, aynı paşayı seçmeyen basit kızın memleketini karşılaştırmak kâfiydi.”
― İhsan Oktay Anar, Yedinci Gün

“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
― Katharine Graham

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw — the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am! Why can't I say that, Willy?”
― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

“You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.”
― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman: Text and Criticism

“Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.”
― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

“Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.”
― Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing

“If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she had turned imperceptibly into one of those women who have become old without ever having been middle aged: a little withered, a little acid, hard as nails, sentimentally kindhearted, and addicted to religion or small dogs.”
― Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.”
― Doris Lessing

“You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world...”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

“Kusur benim imzamdır.”
― İhsan Oktay Anar, Suskunlar

“‎"Yaşanılanlar,görülenler ve öğrenilenler ne kadar acı olursa olsun,macera insanoğlu için büyük bir nimetti.Çünkü dünyadaki en büyük mutluluk,bu Dünya'nın şahidi olmaktı.”
― İhsan Oktay Anar, Puslu Kıtalar Atlası

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon

“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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

“Düştüm,düşmüşlüğüm kimsenin değil benim yanılgımın eseri.Düştüm.Düşenin dostu Allah.Tut elimden kaldır beni.”
― Nazan Bekiroğlu, La: Sonsuzluk Hecesi

“We are our choices.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Existence is an imperfection.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“your judgement judges you and defines you”
― SARTRE JEAN-PAUL