Martyna
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Must I Go
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Typical of him to entrust his posterity to people who dedicated so little of their lives to remembering him.
“The unfortunate part is that you, my dear friend, will never know, and I shall never be able to tell you, how what you say to me is translated inside me. You did not speak Turkish, no. We both employed, you and I, the same language, the same words. But is it our fault, yours and mine, if words in themselves are empty? Empty, my dear friend. You fill them with your meaning, as you speak them to me; while I, in taking them in, inevitably fill them with my own. We thought we understood each other; we did not understand each other at all.”
― One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
― One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
“I decided I was too soft to last, and then I decided to be softer.”
― Take Me With You
― Take Me With You
“The idea that others saw in me one that was not the I whom I knew, one whom they alone could know, as they looked at me from without, with eyes that were not my own, eyes that conferred upon me an aspect destined to remain always foreign to me, although it was one that was in me, one that was my own to them (a "mine," that is to say, that was not for me!)—a life into which, although it was my own, I had no power to penetrate—this idea gave me no rest.”
― One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
― One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
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