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Fusun Cicekoglu
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What one carries from one point to another, geographically or temporally, is one’s self. Even the most inconsistent person is consistently himself.
“Small talk—the guarantee against speaking about anything with meaning. A barrier against hearing her tell me what I don’t want to learn.”
― Trail of Broken Wings
― Trail of Broken Wings
“Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn’t catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don’t exist.”
― The Faraway Nearby
― The Faraway Nearby
“We are not optimists; we do not present a lovely vision of the world which everyone is expected to fall in love with. We simply have, wherever we are, some small local task to do, on the side of justice, for the poor. —HERBERT MCCABE, OP”
― Hope without Optimism
― Hope without Optimism
“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story.”
― The Faraway Nearby
― The Faraway Nearby
“debatable today, as the structure could house the entire population of Athens, but could do nothing to protect their resources or withstand a long siege. And like every empire, the greatest enemy turned out to be the self. Athens ended up falling largely as a result of its own foolishness. The Greeks lost control. The empire got too big and essentially imploded upon itself. The proud and overly ambitious military leaders lost”
― How to Be Greek Without Being Greek
― How to Be Greek Without Being Greek
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