Inci

“Çünkü aslında hiçbir şey gelmiyordu şairin elinden, hiçbir kötülüğün ortadan kaldırılmasına yardımcı olamıyordu; yalnızca dünyayı ihtişama boğup yücelttiğinde kulak veriliyordu ona, yoksa olduğu haliyle anlattığında değil. Sadece yalan, ünün ta kendisiydi, yoksa bilgi değil”
― Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil

“Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince