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  • #1
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #2
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Songs are as sad as the listener.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #3
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #4
    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    Anais Nin

  • #5
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I have never seen much point in getting heavy with stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I... And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

  • #6
    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    Linda Grayson

  • #7
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #8
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus

  • #9
    J.D. Salinger
    “Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.”
    J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

  • #10
    Oğuz Atay
    “(...) çok güzel kızlar varmış ve Kant'ı da su gibi okuyorlarmış diye söylentiler çıkarıyorlar, doğru mu acaba? Onları ne yazık ki karşıdan karşıya geçerken ve vapurda bacak bacak üstüne atarken ve piyasa caddelerinde gözlerini ilerde bir noktaya dikmiş yürürken göremiyoruz, nerede saklanıyorlar dersin, bak ben ortadayım, onlarda kim bilir ne isterler? Kant'ın kendisini isterler, hem de güzel bir Kant isterler, kirli çamaşırlarını bile kimselere koklatmazlarmış öyle mi? Beni şimdiye kadar otuz yedinci sayfaya kadar okudular, sıkılıp ellerinden bıraktılar, o sayfam açık öylece kaldım, o sayfada sarardım, bizim bir arkadaş vardı, kadınlara kendini acındıracaksın diye öğüt veriyordu bana, çok üzülüyorum – ne yapacağımı bilmiyorum – yalnız kaldığım için intihar etmeyi düşünüyorum diye dert yandı mı bütün kadınlar ağına düşüyormuş, sonra bir yanlışlık oldu: Bu arkadaş -başımız sağ olsun- intihar etti, benim de korktuğum anlar oluyor, insan bu güven olmaz, pencere bu kadar yakınken ve iki adım daha atınca denize düşmek ihtimali varken, korkmayın canım şey, sizi elde etmek için yalan söyledim, ben ölür müyüm? ha- ha, vicdan azabı rolünde yaşamak niyetindeyim, kendimden bahsettiğime bakmayın, asıl mesele sizsiniz, ben yaşlanıyorum, siz hep genç kalıyorsunuz, yıllardır vapura binerim, yıllardır geniş caddelerde karşıdan karşıya geçerim, yıllardır yollarda yürürüm, gördüğüm kadarıyla siz hep gençsiniz, hep güzelsiniz, yirmi yaşında kalıyorsunuz her zaman, bir bayrak yarışında olduğu gibi gençliği birbirinize devrederek ilerliyorsunuz, ben benzetme için özür dilerim, sizi yerinizden oynatacak kadar heyecanlı bir benzetme yapmayı ne kadar isterdim, bizi iyi yetiştirmediler, hep ukalalık öğrettiler, öğretenleri bir elime geçirebilsem, sizin yanınızdaki delikanlılar da yaşlanmıyor, ne garip ne karışık bir düzen bu, bazen yanınızda yaşlıları da görüyorum, sakın paraya kıymet vermeyin olur mu? Sizi onlarla gördükçe daha çok üzülüyorum, beni kırmayın olmaz mı? (...)”
    Oğuz Atay, Tehlikeli Oyunlar

  • #11
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #12
    Christopher Isherwood
    “Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small stove, squeezing past each other on the narrow stairs, shaving in front of the same small bathroom mirror, constantly jogging, jostling, bumping against each other’s bodies by mistake or on purpose, sensually, aggressively, awkwardly, impatiently, in rage or in love – think what deep though invisible tracks they must leave, everywhere, behind them!”
    Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

  • #13
    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  • #14
    Douglas Coupland
    “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
    Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

  • #15
    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

  • #16
    “You should date a girl who reads.
    Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

    Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

    She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

    Buy her another cup of coffee.

    Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

    It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

    She has to give it a shot somehow.

    Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

    Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

    Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

    If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

    You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

    You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

    Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

    Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
    Rosemarie Urquico

  • #17
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #18
    Susan Sontag
    “Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
    Susan Sontag

  • #19
    Nadine Gordimer
    “The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
    Nadine Gordimer

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Hearts are made to be broken.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #23
    W.C. Fields
    “It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
    W.C. Fields

  • #24
    Etgar Keret
    “Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.”
    Etgar Keret

  • #25
    Victor Hugo
    “The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.”
    Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

  • #26
    Victor Hugo
    “A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.”
    Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

  • #27
    Erich Fromm
    “To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern—and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.”
    Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

  • #28
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
    Rumi

  • #29
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
    Jalalu'l-din Rumi

  • #30
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
    Rumi



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