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"My mood, as I identify with each of my heroes, resembles what I used to feel when I played alone as a child. Like all children, I liked to play make-believe, to put myself in someone else's place and imagine dream worlds in which I was a soldier, a famous soccer player, or a great hero."
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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
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"I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited."
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"When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels."
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"Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday."
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"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
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"It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these."
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"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."
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"The fundamental emotional need of every child is being-with."
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"What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles, it was a miraculous world."
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"More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs."
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"Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul."
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"I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city."
People
"I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise."
Lifestyle
"The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone."
Power
"I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries."
Being
"They, like me, like all of us, had, once upon a time, in a past so far away it seemed like heaven, caught by chance a glimpse of an inner essence, only to forget what it was. It was this lost memory that pained us, reduced us to ruins, though still we struggled to be ourselves."
Philosophy
"Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the hope that the next day would be better, my recollections a little less pointed, but I would awake to the same pain, as if a black lamp were burning eternally inside me, radiating darkness."
Emotion
"A man could be at the coffee-house every evening laughing and playing cards with his friends, he could have so much fun with his classmates that there is never a moment they arent t exploding into laughter, he could spend every hour of the day chatting with his intimates, but if that man has been abandoned by God, he d still be the loneliest man on earth."
Life
"Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to say that the fury owed nothing to my partial awareness that she was right."
Emotional
"And awakening, at that moment, to the thrilling prospect of complete surrender, not just of one's lips but of one's entire body to a lover's mercy, we recognized that the gap between compassion and surrender is love's darkest, deepest region."
Romance
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