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“You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
― Paul McCartney

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“In 1830 Belgium became independent after an opera performance; in 1959 Congo demands independence after a soccer match.”
― David Van Reybrouck, Congo: een geschiedenis

“Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“Foolishness consists in believing you understand what you really don't.”
― Silvano Levy, Decoding Magritte

“Painting is not therefore an imitation of objects. The reality of the external world acts as a point of departure, but painting takes the skin off this reality in order to touch the mind.”
― Silvano Levy, Decoding Magritte

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Alakalarımızın yüz bin şekline isim bulamıyoruz ve "sevmek" deyip çıkıyoruz. Onun için ne kadar suistimale uğruyor bu kelime.”
― Peyami Safa, Bir Tereddüdün Romanı

“İnsanlar, birbirlerinden uzun mesafelere ayrılmış yıldızlar gibi, kendi hususî boşlukları içinde dönen, hepsi yalnız, hepsi mahrem ve başkalarına kapalı birer dünyadır. Bir yıldız sönünce ondan uzaktakiler bir şey duymaz.”
― Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar, Fahim Bey ve Biz

“Çoğumuz bir türlü hayata alışmamak ve onunla anlaşamamak yüzünden rahatı daima bulunduğumuz yerden başka bir yerde ve yaşadığımız zamandan başka bir zamanda bulacağımızı hayal ederiz. Saadet bize hiçbir zaman elimizde gözükmez. Ömrümüz böylece şimdi sürmemiz nasip olmayan ve güya saadete erecek bir başka ömre hazırlanış mahiyetinde geçer. Fakat yazık ki böyle ziyan olan hayatın sonunda bize nasip olacak bir ikinci ömrümüz yoktur!”
― Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar, Çamlıca'daki Eniştemiz

“There is no point in waiting for the right moment when a smooth change might be possible; this moment will never arrive, history will never provide us with such an opportunity. One has to take the risk and intervene, even if reaching the goal appears (and is, in some sense) impossible - only by doing this can one change the situation so that the impossible becomes possible, in a way that can never be predicted.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

“kimileri düşer yalnızlığa,
kimileri yükselir.”
― Hasan Ali Toptaş, Yalnızlıklar

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.”
― Etgar Keret