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“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”
― Alain de Botton

“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”
― Alain de Botton

“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
― Alain de Botton

“There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“...Sanki her seyin mantiksizligina kendini ikna edebilirse,yasananlari gercek olmaktan cikarabilecekti.”
― Alper Canıgüz, Oğullar ve Rencide Ruhlar

“Hayata karışmanın yoruculuğu ve tatmin ediciliği ayakkabıların içinde... Hayattan kopmanın dinginliği ve tedirginliğiyse terliklerin...”
― Hakan Bıçakçı, Apartman Boşluğu

“Noktalı virgüllerin, noktalara göre yaşama şansımı artırdığına inanıyordum.”
― Alper Canıgüz, Oğullar ve Rencide Ruhlar

“...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Hür teşebbüs aşktan da, sanattan da güçlüydü.”
― Alper Canıgüz, Oğullar ve Rencide Ruhlar

“Ölüleri sevmek kolaydır.”
― Alper Canıgüz, Gizliajans

“Zaten burada hiç kimse başkalarına gönül gözüyle bakmaz. Tişörtünün markasını, telefonunun modelini anında fark ederler ama saatinin durmuş olduğunu, gözünün nemlendiğini, kalbinin kırıldığını fark etmezler.”
― Doğu Yücel, Uzak Dünyalar

“Passion creates, addiction consumes.”
― Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

“The research literature has identified three factors that universally lead to stress: uncertainty, the lack of information and the loss of control.”
― Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No

“I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it's for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“You are so brave and so strong that sometimes I forget someone like me can hurt you. But you need to remember that you can hurt me too.”
― Allison Raskin, I Hate Everyone But You

“I can already tell that I will hate everyone but you.

Sincerely,
Ava Helmer

(that brunette who won't leave you alone)”
― Allison Raskin, I Hate Everyone But You

“Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Lying on the Couch

“To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“All language is but a poor translation.”
― Franz Kafka

“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka

“Paths are made by walking”
― Franz Kafka

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“İnsan nedense, kendisine ızdırap çektirenlere yeni ızdırap şansları tanımak konusunda çok heveslidir.”
― Ingvar Ambjørnsen

“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”
― Alain de Botton, On Love

“One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.”
― Alain de Botton

“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”
― Alain de Botton

“It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.”
― Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness