“Consider this: Could it be true that, in all Russian literature, there isn’t a single clear and joyous depiction of the sun?”
― Odessa Stories
― Odessa Stories
“Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.”
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“İçimizde şeytan var... Can kırıkları var. Nefret var, yalanlar var... Bir yanımız bizi çoktan terk etmiş, kaçıyor... Melankoli ve hüsran var...”
― İçimizdeki Şeytan
― İçimizdeki Şeytan
“The lonely moon — look — like a silver plate, like a plate full of leftovers at the small restaurant of sorrow when the travellers are gone and you hear the far away whistle of the ship under the night rooms.”
― Yannis Ritsos - Poems: Selected Books – Volume II, Second Edition
― Yannis Ritsos - Poems: Selected Books – Volume II, Second Edition
“No one responds to the newness of new things like children.”
― Odessa Stories
― Odessa Stories
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