“Life is only the mirror into which a man gazes not in order that he may get a reflection of himself, but that he may come to understand himself by that reflection; that he may see what it is that the mirror shows.”
― On Human Nature
― On Human Nature
“Oysa, yaşamış olduğum birçok yanlışlığı düzeltebilecektim. Bütün ayak izlerimin üzerinden bir daha gidecektim.
Yalnız bir kere yaşanıyormuş.”
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Yalnız bir kere yaşanıyormuş.”
―
“No man lives, or can live, without having some object in view, and without making efforts to attain that object. But when there is no such object and hope is entirely fled, anguish often turns a man into a monster.”
― The House of the Dead
― The House of the Dead
“one cannot hate a man more than one can love him.” The”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“What are we here for? We are not alive though we are living and we are not in our graves though we are dead.”
― The House of the Dead: New Translation
― The House of the Dead: New Translation
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