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“And look! look! look! I think those little fish
better wake up and dash themselves away
from the hopeless future that is
bulging toward them.
And probably,
if they don’t waste time
looking for an easier world,
they can do it”
― Dream Work
better wake up and dash themselves away
from the hopeless future that is
bulging toward them.
And probably,
if they don’t waste time
looking for an easier world,
they can do it”
― Dream Work
“kim bu cennet vatanın uğruna olmaz ki feda."
yiğitlik, sen cehennem olsan da bile
fedayı kabul etmektir,
cennet yapabilmek için seni,
yoksul ve namuslu halka.”
― Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim
yiğitlik, sen cehennem olsan da bile
fedayı kabul etmektir,
cennet yapabilmek için seni,
yoksul ve namuslu halka.”
― Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim
“I tried to ask my parents to leave the room,
but not my life. It was very hard. Because the room was the size
of my life. Because my life was small.
[...]
Raising one’s voice in a small space
felt at once godlike & childish.”
―
but not my life. It was very hard. Because the room was the size
of my life. Because my life was small.
[...]
Raising one’s voice in a small space
felt at once godlike & childish.”
―
“I had run away with her before, come as an exile to her home and stayed for love. Fools stay for love. I am a fool. I stayed in the army eight years because I loved someone. You’d think that would have been enough. I stayed too because I had nowhere else to go. I stay here by choice. That means a lot to me.”
― The Passion
― The Passion
“If you notice anything,
it leads you to notice
more
and more.
And anyway
I was so full of energy.
I was always running around, looking
at this and that.
If I stopped
the pain
was unbearable.
If I stopped and thought, maybe
the world
can’t be saved,
the pain
was unbearable.”
― Dream Work
it leads you to notice
more
and more.
And anyway
I was so full of energy.
I was always running around, looking
at this and that.
If I stopped
the pain
was unbearable.
If I stopped and thought, maybe
the world
can’t be saved,
the pain
was unbearable.”
― Dream Work
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