Merve Bakan

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The soulless have no need of melancholia”
― Vladimir Odoyevsky, The Salamander and Other Gothic Tales

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language.”
― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

“The sadness will last forever.”
― Vincent van Gogh