Yasemin Dildar

“I’m good at leaving. The trick is to close yourself off. Don’t hear, don’t see. Don’t look back.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“One feels free in relationships of love and friendship. It is not the absence of ties, but ties themselves which set us free. Freedom is a word which pertains to relations par excellence. Without hold there is no freedom”
― Byung-Chul Han, Duft der Zeit: Ein philosophischer Essay zur Kunst des Verweilens

“The society of positivity, from which negativity has disappeared, is a society of bare life, which is exclusively dominated by the concern to make sure of survival”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros

“When we are constantly asked to begin anew, to choose a new option or version of something, we may get the impression that life is accelerating, In reality, what we face is an absence of any experience of duration.”
― Byung-Chul Han. The Scent of Time