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Ruth Ozeki
“Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes."
"Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing.”
Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

Aldous Huxley
“I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Sabahattin Ali
“İstanbul'dan ayrılmak istemiyoruz fakat senede kaç defa kütüphaneye gideriz? üç beş cadde ile bir o kadar da kahveden başka ne biliriz? fikir hayatı, fikir hayatı diyoruz... en kabadayımız bile gevezelikten başka ne konuşuyor? kahve münakaşalarıyla zihnimizi inkişaf ettirdiğimizi sanmakla pek akıllıca bir iş yaptığımıza kani değilim... bizi buraya asıl bağlayan bir alışkanlıktır... biz burada maksatsız yaşamayı ve boş beyinle dolaşmayı tatlı bir meşgale haline getirmek yolunu keşfetmişiz... hepimizi istanbul'a bağlayan sadece bu... burada insan, kafasını zerre kadar işletmeden mütefekkir bir kimse olduğuna inanmak ve buna başkalarını da inandırmak imkanına malik... bu şehrin ve buradaki muhitlerin dayanılmaz cazibesi işte bundan ibaret!...”
Sabahattin Ali, İçimizdeki Şeytan

Julie Otsuka
“We forgot about Buddha. We forgot about God. We developed a coldness inside us that still has not thawed. I fear my soul has died. We stopped writing home to our mothers. We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.
Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

Hermann Hesse
“We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.”
Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

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