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“There were days like that, when she’d understand so well and see so much that she’d end up in a gentle and dizzy drunkenness, almost anxious, as if her perceptions without thoughts were dragging her in a shiny and sweet swirl to where, to where.”

“Every once in a while, like a little almost inaudible cry and then silence denying it, she’d quickly gain the feeling of being able to live and then she’d lose it forever in a dizzy surprise: what happened? Though the feeling was fleeting as a perfume while you run, almost a lie, it had been exactly that, being able to live…”

“[…] gratitude isn’t something that you must make an effort to feel.”

“[…] and what you do say when you just let things say themselves, when you let the body alone, to seek and find and take what it likes, and then everything is right, and nothing’s wasted, the waste is covered over and all is swept away in the torrent, in the force of desire.”

“I’ve never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.”

“Güzelliğinden ya da kendimi çok yakın hissettiğim hareketlerinden ve teninden sızan bir ışık, bana dünyanın gitmem gereken merkezinin onun yanı olduğunu hatırlatıyordu.”

“There are people you can’t teach to appreciate beauty. They’re subhuman.”

“[…] not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, […]”

“It is difficult,” I added, “to inspire love in a tomb.”
“One must create the opportunities one can,” he replied oddly.

“Listening to her Ophélie, one wondered if Shakespeare had left his resting place in the Elysian Fields to help her rehearse Hamlet…”

"Çünkü Aşk, ne çöl gibi devinimsiz durmaktan, ne rüzgâr gibi dünyayi dolaşmaktam, ne de senin gibi her şeyi uzaktan görmekten ibarettir. Aşk, Evren'in Ruhu'nu değiştiren ve geliştiren güçtür.”

“Çünkü insanlar resimlerin ve sözcüklerin büyüsüne kapılıp sonunda Evren’in Dili’ni unuturlar.”

“Çünkü hayat, yaşamakta olduğumuz andan ibarettir ve sadece budur.”

“I am alone for ever in this room where the light burns all night long and the professional faces of strangers, without warmth or pity, glance at me through the half open door. I wait, I wait, between the wall and the bitter medicine in the glass. What am I waiting for? […]

I had a friend, a lover. It was a dream.”

“Shall I be able to endure my self-condemnation now? But that is only a rhetorical question, because, although it is difficult to live with so much unhappiness and so many failures, to die seems to be harder still.”

“At this point of his effort man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. […] The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd […]”

“We must all allow ourselves the fantasy of projection time to time, a chance to clothe ourselves in the imaginary gowns and tails of what has never been and never will be.”