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“You lose your immortality when you lose your memory. And if you land then on Terra Caelestis, with your pillow and chamberpot, you are made to room not with Shakespeare or even Longfellow, but with guitarists and cretins.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

“It had glistening eyes like sad black olives.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

“A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

“This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

“Forget me now, but remember me afterwards, when the bitter part is forgotten. This”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

“Knight seemed to him to be constantly playing some game of his own invention, without telling his partners its rules.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

“Sana anlatılanın aslında üç aşamalı olduğunu unutma; önce anlatan tarafından biçimlendiğini, sonra dinleyen tarafından yeniden biçimlendiğini, öyküdeki ölmüş adamın her ikisinden de sakladığı şeyler olduğunu.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

“Geçmiş en soylu yakacaktır.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

“There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“Now that im older i'm more aware of things that make me feel complete as a person. I'm trying to concentrate on those things as opposed to things that make feel empty”
― Mary-Kate Olsen

“The way I see it, you have to take every chance you get because there may not be another one. You have to learn from your mistakes because nobody's perfect. You have to laugh, love & live every day as if it's your last.”
― Mary-Kate Olsen

“İnsan yaşadığı yerlerde beraber bulunduğu insanlara görünmez ince tellerle bağlanırmış; ayrılık vaktinde bu bağlar gerilmeye, kopan keman telleri gibi acı sesler çıkarmaya başlar, hep birinin gönlümüzden kopup ayrılması bir ayrı sızı uyandırırmış. Bunu yazan şair ne kadar haklıymış!”
― Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Çalıkuşu

“..kısa bir zaman için zerzevatı çiçeğe benzeten bahar...”
― Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Miskinler Tekkesi

“Daha yirmi üç yaşıma girmedim; vücudumdan çocukluğun izleri silinmedi; halbuki gönlüm, baştan başa bütün sevdiklerimin ölüleriyle dolu.”
― Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Çalıkuşu

“İnsan ruhu ne anlaşılmaz bir muamma?”
― Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Çalıkuşu

“Ben sizi seviyorsam bundan size ne?”
― Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Tanrı Misafiri

“Bir zehri insan, bir kerede yutmalı, ya ölür ya kurtulur”
― Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Çalıkuşu

“I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
― Susan Sontag

“The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.”
― Susan Sontag

“I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.”
― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. ”
― Susan Sontag

“Life is a movie; death is a photograph.”
― Susan Sontag