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“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.”
― Max Frisch

“…çünkü yoruldum, çünkü her şeyi birbirine karıştırdım, çünkü bu dünyada gizli mezhep sorunu bile gelip beni buldu fakat sevebileceğim bir kadın, bol para, insan yakınlığı beni hiç bulamadı. Ben de üç yıl, dört ay önce acılaştım, huysuzlaştım, hiçbir şeyi beğenmez oldum; para kazanamayacağımı, insanları sevemeyeceğimi anlayınca uzaklara gittim, kimse beni bulmasın diye. Onlar da beni ciddiye aldılar, gelmediler…”
― Oğuz Atay, Korkuyu Beklerken

“The seeker after truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them," the first scientist wrote, "but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration and not the sayings of human beings whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and deficiency. Thus the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of of its content, attack it from every side. he should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency.”
― Ibn al-Haytham

“Girls my age never use the word “fair”. Ordinary girls as young as I am are basically indifferent to whether things are fair or not. The central question for them is not whether something is fair but whether or not it’s beautiful or will make them happy. “Fair” is a man’s word, finally, but I can’t help feeling that it is also exactly the right word for me now.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood