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.
“But there won’t be any more journeys after this one, no more oceans explored. And maybe that’s why I am filled with calm. My life has been a migration without a destination, and that in itself is senseless. I leave for no reason, just to be moving, and it breaks my heart a thousand times, a million.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
“I don't know how to force the world into a shape I can manage.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
“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
“It’s not life I’m tired of, with its astonishing ocean currents and layers of ice and all the delicate feathers that make up a wing. It’s myself.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
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