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“İnsan yapısındaki çelişkiler, onun ne ölüme ne de sonsuzluğa bir türlü dayanamadığını gösteriyor. Sonsuzluk da ölüm kadar ürkütücü bir gerçektir.”
― Oğuz Atay, Tutunamayanlar

“But what is the opposite of fidelity?' asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialitic; now he needed only to draw it to a close with a punch. 'Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, it means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So, where does that leave us? How can we conclude except by acknowledging that an act of translation is always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“Words and phrases you think are carved into your bones can disappear in no time.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel