Erkam Evlice

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.”
― H. L. Mencken, A Little Book In C Major

“[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book