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“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
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“After a time, my hand had become as skilled as my eyes. So if I was drawing a very fine tree, it felt as if my hand was moving without me directly it. As I watched the pencil race across the page, I would look on it in amazement, as if the drawing were the proof of another presence, as if someone else had taken up residence in my body. As I marveled at his work aspiring to become his equal, another part of my brain was busy inspecting the curves of the branches, the placement of mountains, the composition as a whole, reflecting that I had created this scene on a blank piece of paper. My mind was at the tip of my pen, acting before I could think; at the same time it could survey what I had already done. This second line of perception, this ability to analyse my progress, was the pleasure this small artist felt when he looked at the discovery of his courage and freedom. To step outside myself , to know the second person who had taken up residence inside me, was to retrace the dividing line that appeared as my pencil slipped across the paper, like a boy sledding in the snow.”
― Istanbul: Memories and the City
― Istanbul: Memories and the City

“The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.”
― Istanbul: Memories and the City
― Istanbul: Memories and the City

“ينشأ الإنسان عادة في بيئة ذات عقيدة معينة. فهو لا يكاد يفتح عينه للحياة حتى يرى أمه وأباه وأهل بيته وأقرانه يقدسون صنماً أو قبراً أو رجلاً من رجال التاريخ , وينسبون إليه كل فضيلة. وعقل الإنسان ينمو في هذا الوضع حتى يصبح كأنه في قالب , وهو لا يستطيع أن يفكر إلا في حدود ذلك القالب. إنه مقيَد ويحسب أنه حر. ولهذ نجد كل ذي عقيدة واثقاً من صحة عقيدته وثوقاً تاماً , أما المخالفون له فهم متعصبون – تعساً لهم!”
― الأحلام: بين العلم والعقيدة
― الأحلام: بين العلم والعقيدة

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