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“his drily fastidious, passionate, Frenchified, misanthropic soul was incapable of castle building.”
― Fathers and Sons
― Fathers and Sons
“We raised our glasses. I could almost hear Dad chuckling at Mom’s comment in the way he always did when he was truly enjoying something. It had grown dark outside. A wind picked up, rattling the windows, and the candle flames suddenly shifted, dancing along the border between turbulence and order.”
― The Glass Castle
― The Glass Castle
“Bu dünyada insanların korktuğu tek şey öğrenmekti. Acıyı, susuzluğu ve üzüntüyü öğrenmek onların uykularını kaçırıyor, bu yüzden daha rahat döşeklere, daha leziz yemeklere ve daha neşeli dostlara sığınıyorlardı. Dünyaya olan kayıtsızlıkları bazen o kerteye varıyordu ki, kendilerine altın ve gümüşten, zevk ve sefadan, lezzet ve şehvetten bir alem kurup, keder ve ızdırap fikirlerinin kafalarına girmesine izin vermiyorlardı. Oysa uzun ihsan efendi dünyanın şahidi olmanın gerçek bir ibadet olduğunu sık sık söylerdi. Her insan şu ya da bu şekilde dünyayı okumalıydı. Kuranın kendisi peygamberin dünyayı nasıl okuduğuna bir örnekti ve onun ardında giden herkes dünyayı onun gibi okuyup şehadetlerini yazmalı ve bunları başkalarına aktarmalıydı. Dünyaya şahit olmanın yolu ise maceranın kendisinden başka bir şey değildi. yaşanılanlar,görülenler ve öğrenilenler ne kadar acı olursa olsun, macera insanoğlu için büyük bir nimetti. Çünkü dünyadaki en büyük mutluluk, bu dünyanın şahidi olmaktı.”
― Puslu Kıtalar Atlası
― Puslu Kıtalar Atlası
“Am doing what you see - lying under a rick. The space occupied by my body is small indeed compared with the surrounding immensity in which it has neither part nor lot, and the portion of time allotted to me here on earth is insignificant indeed compared with the eternity which I have never known, and shall never enter! Yet in the same atom, in this same mathematical point which I call my body, the blood circulates, and the brain operates at will. A fine discrepancy for you - a fine futility!"
"I would remark that what you have just said applies to every human being in creation."
"True. What I mean is that my parents know not a single tedious moment, nor are in the least distressed with the thought of their insignificance - it is a thought which never stinks in their nostrils, whereas I - well, I feel nothing but weariness and rancour in my breast.”
― Fathers and Sons
"I would remark that what you have just said applies to every human being in creation."
"True. What I mean is that my parents know not a single tedious moment, nor are in the least distressed with the thought of their insignificance - it is a thought which never stinks in their nostrils, whereas I - well, I feel nothing but weariness and rancour in my breast.”
― Fathers and Sons
“Arren waited for him in the hot, leaf-speckled sunlight. He knew that Sparrowhawk was ashamed to burden Arren with his emotion, and indeed there was nothing the boy could do or say. But his heart went out utterly to his companion, not now with that first romantic ardour and adoration, but painfully as if a link were drawn forth from the very inmost of it and forged into an unbreaking bond. For in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whole, and does not last.”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
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