Samet Güren

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“Real dialogue isn’t about talking to people who believe the same things as you.”
― Zygmunt Bauman

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“I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.”
― Elif Batuman, The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

tags: beauty, truth

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“You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed

tags: life, love

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“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time and place.”
― Elif Batuman

tags: literature, neuro-lit-crit, theory

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“Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions”
― Frantz Fanon

tags: america, decadent, u-s

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