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“I am telling the history of very simple people, who had never had any illuminating doubts as to personal integrity and honor.”
― The Mill on the Floss
― The Mill on the Floss
“Oğlum Behçet, sen bir medeniyetin iflâsı nedir, bilir misin? dedi. İnsan bozulur, insan kalmaz; bir medeniyet insanı insan yapan manevî kıymetler manzumesidir. Anlıyor musun şimdi derdin büyüklüğünü?... Cahilsin okur, öğrenirsin. Gerisin; ilerlersin. Adam yok; yetiştirirsin, günün birinde meydana çıkıverir. Paran yok; kazanırsın. Her şeyin bir çaresi vardır. Fakat insan bozuldu mu, bunun çaresi yoktur. Bizde insanoğlu şirazesiz kalmış.....
İnsanı yenibaştan, yeni esaslarla kurmamız lazım; yeni kıymetlerle yaşayan bir insan. Halbuki bu imkansız...”
― Mahur Beste
İnsanı yenibaştan, yeni esaslarla kurmamız lazım; yeni kıymetlerle yaşayan bir insan. Halbuki bu imkansız...”
― Mahur Beste
“Night plans aren’t any good in the morning. The way you think at night is no good in the morning.”
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“To my grandparents Detroit was like one big Koza Han during cocoon season. What they didn't see were the workers sleeping on the streets ...”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“- You, Inglés, who know nothing about women. Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.
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- Thou art not ugly.”
- Qué no? Don’t lie to me. Or,” she laughed the deep laugh. “Has it begun to work with thee? No. That is a joke. No. Look at the ugliness. Yet one has a feeling within one that blinds a man while he loves you. You, with that feeling, blind him, and blind yourself. Then one day, for no reason, he sees you ugly as you really are and he is not blind any more and then you see yourself as ugly as he sees you and you lose your man and your feeling. Do you understand, guapa?”
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
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- Thou art not ugly.”
- Qué no? Don’t lie to me. Or,” she laughed the deep laugh. “Has it begun to work with thee? No. That is a joke. No. Look at the ugliness. Yet one has a feeling within one that blinds a man while he loves you. You, with that feeling, blind him, and blind yourself. Then one day, for no reason, he sees you ugly as you really are and he is not blind any more and then you see yourself as ugly as he sees you and you lose your man and your feeling. Do you understand, guapa?”
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
Elçin’s 2025 Year in Books
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