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Mehmet Murat ?ldan is a visionary Turkish playwright, novelist, and thinker born in 1965 in Elaz?g, Turkey. Known for his profound philosophical insights and poetic expressions, ?ldan has inspired countless readers worldwide with his sharp intellect and timeless quotes. His works often explore the beauty of nature, the complexity of human thought, and the pursuit of wisdom. Through his literary voice, he encourages courage, imagination, and positive thinking, leaving a powerful legacy for both current and future generations.
"When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in front of you and finally the train disappears in the horizon like a streak of lightning! And that train, my dear friend, is your life!"
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"When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in front of you and finally the train disappears in the horizon like a streak of lightning! And that train, my dear friend, is your life!"

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"Instead of hiding behind the curtain, be the curtain itself; you will never be found!"
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"Instead of hiding behind the curtain, be the curtain itself; you will never be found!"

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"What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!"
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"What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!"

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"You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!"
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"You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!"

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"The tram's fate is to travel only on its track. But for man, everywhere is a track; everywhere is his fate!"
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"The tram's fate is to travel only on its track. But for man, everywhere is a track; everywhere is his fate!"

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"If you can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white swan adding beauty to a misty lake!"
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"If you can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white swan adding beauty to a misty lake!"

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"It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!"
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"It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!"

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"No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence!"
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"No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence!"

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"The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!"
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"The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!"

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"A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!"
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"A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!"

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"Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!"
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"Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!"

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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

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"Waiting makes wine better, but waiting makes man decay! Don't wait because you have no time! Move fast!"
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"Waiting makes wine better, but waiting makes man decay! Don't wait because you have no time! Move fast!"

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"You must live in a place where you can walk safely all alone even after midnights!"
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"You must live in a place where you can walk safely all alone even after midnights!"

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"Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere!"
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"Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere!"

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"When you turn your back to the truth, the truth will soon appear before you!"
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"When you turn your back to the truth, the truth will soon appear before you!"

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"Let us hope that life grant an opportunity to those miserable who live in the golden palaces to taste the infinite peace of a wooden cottage in the countryside and so their misery ends!"
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"Let us hope that life grant an opportunity to those miserable who live in the golden palaces to taste the infinite peace of a wooden cottage in the countryside and so their misery ends!"

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"If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!"
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"If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!"

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"For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!"
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"For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!"

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"When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won't take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!"
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"When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won't take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!"

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"Right path will not always look like a right path, wrong path will not always look like a wrong path!"
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"Right path will not always look like a right path, wrong path will not always look like a wrong path!"

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"For any kind of problem, we must first undoubtedly believe that we can absolutely solve it! Then, the solution will come; it is our determination and our utter belief on this matter that shall bring the solution!"
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"For any kind of problem, we must first undoubtedly believe that we can absolutely solve it! Then, the solution will come; it is our determination and our utter belief on this matter that shall bring the solution!"

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"To ease the loneliness of the bridges, visit them sometimes! The forgotten ones must be remembered! Create some memories with them so that they will feel themselves less lonely! Memories are the enemies of solitude."
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"To ease the loneliness of the bridges, visit them sometimes! The forgotten ones must be remembered! Create some memories with them so that they will feel themselves less lonely! Memories are the enemies of solitude."

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"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer."
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"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer."

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"Universe is a friend, it creates us; universe is an enemy, it kills us! It is neither a complete-friend, nor a complete-enemy."
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"Universe is a friend, it creates us; universe is an enemy, it kills us! It is neither a complete-friend, nor a complete-enemy."

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"We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet!"
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"We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet!"

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"Life is full of traps: Poisons can be sweet, darkness can shine!"
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"Life is full of traps: Poisons can be sweet, darkness can shine!"

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"Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold."
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"Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold."

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"Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!"
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"Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!"

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"What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat!"
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"What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat!"

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"If you concentrate on the road too much, you will miss the view and when you do the opposite, you will miss the road! Life is an art of catching both the road and the view!"
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"If you concentrate on the road too much, you will miss the view and when you do the opposite, you will miss the road! Life is an art of catching both the road and the view!"

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"You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you!"
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"You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you!"

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"Wisdom is not a mysterious universe where your mind enters but it is a mysterious universe which enters your mind!"
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"Wisdom is not a mysterious universe where your mind enters but it is a mysterious universe which enters your mind!"

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"In every nation's history time comes to behave like wild horses, to refuse any kind of authority which tries to eliminate your freedom!"
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"In every nation's history time comes to behave like wild horses, to refuse any kind of authority which tries to eliminate your freedom!"

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"Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops."
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"Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops."

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"When we feel ourselves very weak, life will look immensely powerful and ruthless! The extent of our power is the key factor in determining how powerful life is! The stronger we are the weaker the life will be!"
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"When we feel ourselves very weak, life will look immensely powerful and ruthless! The extent of our power is the key factor in determining how powerful life is! The stronger we are the weaker the life will be!"

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"For the sea to be silent, wind must be silent, earthquake must be silent, boat must be silent, fish must be silent; behind every silence, there lies the silence of everything!"
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"For the sea to be silent, wind must be silent, earthquake must be silent, boat must be silent, fish must be silent; behind every silence, there lies the silence of everything!"

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"The clever cannot catch the genius, such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!"
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"The clever cannot catch the genius, such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!"

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"Life is difficult for an ant, for a cat, for an elephant, for us, for birds! Everyone needs a helping hand, if not today, tomorrow for sure! Keep your hands ready for helping! Keep yourself ready to be helped!"
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"Life is difficult for an ant, for a cat, for an elephant, for us, for birds! Everyone needs a helping hand, if not today, tomorrow for sure! Keep your hands ready for helping! Keep yourself ready to be helped!"

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"Something good is a frontier, something better is also a frontier and something excellent is just another frontier! You can always go beyond these frontiers! And so what is excellent? Just a frontier!"
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"Something good is a frontier, something better is also a frontier and something excellent is just another frontier! You can always go beyond these frontiers! And so what is excellent? Just a frontier!"

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"We are doomed to live the feeling of being lost because temporal beings are doomed to feel this way, this is something that transitory bodies cannot avoid!"
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"We are doomed to live the feeling of being lost because temporal beings are doomed to feel this way, this is something that transitory bodies cannot avoid!"

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"Time will do his own drawing upon us but we will do our own drawing upon time as well!"
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"Time will do his own drawing upon us but we will do our own drawing upon time as well!"

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"A dictator in a country is a big threat to the whole humanity, a democrat in a country is a great hope to the whole world!"
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"A dictator in a country is a big threat to the whole humanity, a democrat in a country is a great hope to the whole world!"

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"When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!"
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"When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!"

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"Trying to see the face of the future? Know ye not that the future has infinite faces?"
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"Trying to see the face of the future? Know ye not that the future has infinite faces?"

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"Every New Year must be celebrated at the heart of nature - in the middle of a forest or by the side of a lake under billions of stars - because it is nature who has made our existence possible!"
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"Every New Year must be celebrated at the heart of nature - in the middle of a forest or by the side of a lake under billions of stars - because it is nature who has made our existence possible!"

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"The word mother must be replaced with the word extraordinary because they precisely are!"
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"The word mother must be replaced with the word extraordinary because they precisely are!"

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"A day without laugh is a day without life."
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"A day without laugh is a day without life."

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"Don't hide yourself from the world and don't let the world hide himself from you!"
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"Don't hide yourself from the world and don't let the world hide himself from you!"

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"Through the darkest paths, you can reach the brightest heavens and this marvellous possibility will keep you full of life even in the middle of most horrible utter darknesss!"
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"Through the darkest paths, you can reach the brightest heavens and this marvellous possibility will keep you full of life even in the middle of most horrible utter darknesss!"

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