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“Sevmek bir anlamda senden olmayana ulaşmak, bunun için çabalamak değil midir? Senden farklı olmayan birine niye ulaşmaya çalışasın ki?”
― Ahmet Ümit, Bab-ı Esrar

“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”
― Douglas McGrath

“He is looking down on the two crystal balls that the old man's foul, strong hands have rolled across to him. In one he sees Margaret, not in her raincoat and her nodding plumes, but as she is transfigured in the light of eternity. Long he looks there; then drops a glance to the other, just long enough to see that in its depths Kitty and I walk in bright dresses through our glowing gardens. We had suffered no transfiguration, for we are as we are, and there is nothing more to us. The whole truth about us lies in our material seeming. He sighs a deep sigh of delight and puts out his hand to the ball where Margaret shines. His sleeve catches the other one and sends it down to crash in a thousand pieces on the floor. The old man's smile continues to be lewd and benevolent; he is still not more interested in me than in the bare-armed woman. Chris is wholly inclosed in his intentness on his chosen crystal. No one weeps for this shattering of our world.”
― Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

“Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“What would you have? Your gentleness shall force
More than your force move us to gentleness.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:
This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so
ordinary that the whippers are in love too.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Thought is free.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Let us not burthen our remembrance with
A heaviness that's gone.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“What's past is prologue.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Me, poor man, my library
Was dukedom large enough.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.”
― Mary Shelley

“Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”
― Mary Shelley

“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
That I may see my shadow as I pass.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III