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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"In a democracy, when the traffic light is red for freedoms, don't ever stop, don't ever wait! Refuse the red light, ignore it, break the rules and move forward! It is always legitimate to challenge fascism for every nation in the world as long as this challenge is nonviolent! Because violence means using the same vulgar, the same evil methods of fascism! Don't behave like a dog when fighting against a dog!"
"A dreamlike reality always looks like a real dream!"
"Meditation is mind's vacation!"
"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!"
"A calm night is open to all the truths."
"If you can remain as an atheist in a falling plane, then it means you are a real atheist!"
"Maybe you've understood by now that for men like myself, that is, melancholy men for whom love, agony, happiness and misery are just excuses for maintaining eternal loneliness, life offers neither great joy nor great sadness."
"I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current."
"If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being!"
"What is a great success? You haven't hurt anyone? That is a great success! You haven't ignored any person? That is a great success! You haven't lied? That is a great success! You haven't deceived a person? That's a great success! And now you see how very difficult to have a real success!"
"When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake!"
"These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. --- from the notebooks of Celal Salik."
"Stay behind the scene; then you will have more freedom to work, more freedom to think and more freedom to act!"
"Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!"
"Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living."
"Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation!"
"Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!"
"It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius."
"Maybe you've heard the story of the man who was so driven by this curiosity that he roamed among soldiers in battlefields. He sought a man who had died and returned to life amid the wounded struggling for their lives in pools of blood, a soldier who could tell him about the secrets of the Otherworld. But one of Tamerlane's warriors, taking the seeker for one of the enemy, cleared him in half with a smooth stroke of his scimitar, causing him to conclude that in the Hereafter man is split in two."
"When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!"
"For a finite being, an infinite path has no meaning!"
"Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later!"
"The most tragic thing for a person is to have a very limited capacity in the matters of dream!"
"Whatever we do we are always on the way to somewhere!"
"Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!"
"Sometimes you have to succeed to see that there is nothing awesome in the thing which will be achieved!"
"Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible."
"A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community."
"My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions."
"The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt."
"Learn well how to think right and then be your own shepherd, otherwise you shall be the unlucky sheep of all sorts of cunning shepherds!"
"The emerald life of shepherds always reminds us the romantic and humble life we have lost due to living in the cities!"
"If a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring!"
"How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?"
"A love letter can be very short or it can be long; it can be literary or non-literary; it can be bright or dark, cheerful or tragic. But above all, for a love letter to be a love letter it must be sincere!"
"The gap between compassion and surrender is love's darkest, deepest region."
"The more you keep your door closed, the more you will rot! Open your door! Let different ideas, different beliefs, different cultures and different attitudes flow into your mind. Anything different will help you to enlarge your little world! By opening your door, you invite the whole universe to your tiny house! Enlarge your house and enrich yourself! As long as your door remains closed, you shall continue rotting in your poor world!"
"Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness."
"Do not consider despair as a thick and high wall standing on your way, it is just a darkness and you can still walk in the darkness till you reach the light!"
"Petronius says that 'Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.' That is very true, otherwise there wouldn't exist any religion!"
"What is really the Mars One project? It is to carry Frank Sinatra to the Mars, it is to carry Hamlet to the Mars, Gandhi to the Mars, Buddha to the Mars. It is a project of carrying our memories, our knowledge, our history, our everything to the Mars! It is not only a project of saving our future but also a project of saving our whole past!"
"Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!"
"Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves."
"Perhaps one day someone from a distant land will listen to this story of mine. Isn't this what lies behind the desire to be inscribed in the pages of a book? Isn't it just for the sake of this delight that sultans and viziers proffer bags of gold to have their histories written?"
"The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience."
"The road to Hell is always shiny and alluring."
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