Elçin Arabacı
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Jack London
“What under heaven do you want with a daughter of the bourgeoisie? Leave them alone. Pick out some great, wanton flame of a woman, who laughs at life and jeers at death and loves one while she may. There are such women, and they will love you just as readily as any pusillanimous product of bourgeois sheltered life. There are such women, and they will love you just as readily as any pusillanimous product of bourgeois sheltered life.

Pusillanimous?” Martin protested.
“Just so, pusillanimous; prattling out little moralities that have been prattled into them, and afraid to live life. They will love you, Martin, but they will love their little moralities more. What you want is the magnificent abandon of life, the great free souls, the blazing butterflies and not the little gray moths. Oh, you will grow tired of them, too, of all the female things, if you are unlucky enough to live. But you won’t live. You won’t go back to your ships and sea; therefore, you’ll hang around these pest-holes of cities until your bones are rotten, and then you’ll die.”
Jack London, Martin Eden

Ernest Hemingway
“- 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.

...

- 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?”
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

George Eliot
“I am telling the history of very simple people, who had never had any illuminating doubts as to personal integrity and honor.”
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
“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...”
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Mahur Beste

Valeria Luiselli
“I’m not sure, though, what “for later” means anymore. Something changed in the world. Not too long ago, it changed, and we know it. We don’t know how to explain it yet, but I think we all can feel it, somewhere deep in our gut or in our brain circuits. We feel time differently. No one has quite been able to capture what is happening or say why. Perhaps it’s just that we sense an absence of future, because the present has become too overwhelming, so the future has become unimaginable. And without future, time feels like only an accumulation. An accumulation of months, days, natural disasters, television series, terrorist attacks, divorces, mass migrations, birthdays, photographs, sunrises. We haven’t understood the exact way we are now experiencing time. And maybe the boy’s frustration at not knowing what to take a picture of, or how to frame and focus the things he sees as we all sit inside the car, driving across this strange, beautiful, dark country, is simply a sign of how our ways of documenting the world have fallen short. Perhaps if we found a new way to document it, we might begin to understand this new way we experience space and time. Novels and movies don’t quite capture it; journalism doesn’t; photography, dance, painting, and theater don’t; molecular biology and quantum physics certainly don’t either. We haven’t understood how space and time exist now, how we really experience them. And until we find a way to document them, we will not understand them.”
Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

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