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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"The sun will rise whether you like it or not, whether you oppose it or not, whether you care about it or not! Some things will happen whatever you think and whatever you feel about them!"
"Due to many cosmic and worldly reasons, we will surely lose our planet one day! Till that dark day comes, let us give our profound affection to our beloved earth!"
"Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible!"
"Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!"
"We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches, more humane, and much more joyful."
"The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why now she felt herself to be on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time."
"If you want to be tall to see the world better, have some high thoughts!"
"As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them."
"It's not the content, but the form of thought that counts."
"Never trust the captain who has never taken any education from the School of Storms!"
"I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual."
"Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with Apek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread."
"For a chic and an honorable full victory, you must make your own fight and win your own battle entirely by yourself! Try to refuse any help to get a pure victory, a victory which belongs merely to yourself!"
"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to imagine a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"
"He who hides himself amongst the shadows deserves to live inside the dark shadows! Meet with the light to deserve the light!"
"In life, there are many hills and valleys to pass and you cannot avoid them! The most important thing you need is to know this: You must pass them!"
"Find a calm lake and wait for the twilight in silence! There, existence will visit you with all its magnificence! The existence of the Existence can best be felt in the presence of dimness and in the absence of crowds and noises!"
"If you have a very strong will to travel, the road will suddenly appear before!"
"A wrong path may take you to the right wisdom!"
"Even the most perfect advice cannot be as useful as a staircase or a rope for those who live in the dark wells!"
"What is the world's problem? The world is still believing the old childish stories! That is the problem! Grow up, world, grow up! Be a bit serious!"
"Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!"
"Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life."
"All the beautiful corners of the world are the greatest mind and body healers!"
"When the reality is no different than a beautiful dream, stick tightly to that reality!"
"Unless you refuse the bad things happening to you, you will continue to suffer with your own consent!"
"The uncertainty of the future is a great blessing for us humans! Let the road ahead of us be completely unknown for us so that we can have the marvellous joy of discovering it!"
"In our household doubts more troubling than these were suffered in silence. The spiritual void I have seen in so many of Istanbul's rich, Westernised, secularist families is evident in these silences. Everyone talks openly about mathematics, success at school, football and having fun, but they grapple with the most basic questions of existence - love,compassion, religion, the meaning of life, jealousy, hatred - in trembling confusion and painful solitude. They light a cigarette, give their attention to the music on the radio, return wordlessly to their inner worlds."
"If you have a boat to sail, land becomes a choice! If you do not have a boat to sail, land becomes a fate! Create different choices so that you can have different fates!"
"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"
"The best dancer is the one who isn't even aware that she is dancing!"
"Every lighthouse knows that when the giant waves come, no one will help! And when you know that no one will help you, you fight more seriously!"
"If you are a kind and a peaceful person, you will see yourself when you look at an elegant flower!"
"The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light!"
"An empty street sucks your fullness, a full street fills your emptiness!"
"In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries."
"Sometimes the most difficult thing is to be able to see the most obvious thing!"
"Many years before, Ka had explained to me that when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to feel to the margins; it was, he said, this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art."
"I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me."
"The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything! In other words, every moment of our life holds a key for the unknown or the closed doors of new paths!"
"Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers."
"The leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some diseased."
"Hand holding sword is always an ugly hand!"
"The wind likes making jokes!"
"Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!"
"Every believer is also a nonbeliever because he does not believe in the things nonbelievers believe in, every nonbeliever is also a believer because he believes in the things believers do not believe in!"
"Humans which imprison the animals can never be called as humans!"
"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!"
"Most countries have only few honest politicians and this is just like having a body with only few good organs functioning!"
"For most of the people there is no today and there is no tomorrow; for them, there is only the past times! Leave your past to live your today and to live your tomorrow!"
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