“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
“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 wars will end and the leaders will shake hands, and that old woman will remain waiting for her martyred son, and that girl will wait for her beloved husband, and the children will wait for their heroic father, I do not know who sold the homeland but I know who paid the price.”
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“judges, police officers, doctors—in course of time, through habit, grow so callous that they cannot, even if they wish it, take any but a formal attitude to their clients; in this respect they are not different from the peasant who slaughters sheep and calves in the back-yard, and does not notice the blood.”
― Best Short Stories of Anton Chekov
― Best Short Stories of Anton Chekov
“No one responds to the newness of new things like children.”
― Odessa Stories
― Odessa Stories
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