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“le plus haut des tourments humains est d'être jugé sans loi.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Bernard sank into a yet more hopeless misery.
"But why is it prohibited?" asked the Savage. In the excitement of meeting a man who had read Shakespeare he had momentarily forgotten everything else.
The Controller shrugged his shoulders. "Because it's old; that's the chief reason. We haven't any use for old things here."
"Even when they're beautiful?"
"Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones."
"But the new ones are so stupid and horrible. Those plays, where there's nothing but helicopters flying about and you feel the people kissing." He made a grimace. "Goats and monkeys!" Only in Othello's word could he find an adequate vehicle for his contempt and hatred.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Tüketen insanın üreten insandan daha değerli olduğu bu yanlış ve ahlaksız döneme tahammülüm kalmamıştı artık. Değişmiştim, Mardin beni değiştirmişti. İnsanlar bunca acı çekerken, İstanbul'da en iyi suşinin nerde yenilebileceğini konuşanlara dayanamıyordum.”
― Zülfü Livaneli, Huzursuzluk