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Otuz yıl önce kenarından kıyısından tırtıkladığım kitabı tekrar elime aldım, okuyorum. Akademik ama güzel kitap, öyle akıp gitmiyor, yavaş tempo ilerliyorum ama okuduğum genelde hoşuma kaçıyor.

"The more you liked a girl, the better matched you were, the less your chance of sex, it seemed. Unless, of course —and this is a thought I didn't articulate until later— something in me was attracted to women who said no. But can such a perverse instinct exist?" p.23

"Life. After having lived two-thirds of it, he understood it as a story. Life isn't interesting —the story is. Especially when he had recognized that not all successful people's lives are stories by any means. They were usually a creamy mixture of privileged background aand obvious choices" (p.147)

"You keep playing with words. Did you know that is a sign of anxiety?Trying to be clever all the time" (p.90)

"Helena needed a serious person now. Not humourless, not dull, not funny, not sociable, not a recluse, not a moralist, but rather an old-fashioned serious person with who she could exchange a few words about these strange emotions" (p.51)

"I wouldn't care about hurting myself or anybody else. Because I know now that doing things doesn't hurt you; you get hurt by avoiding them" (p.304)

"It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same" (p.114)

"She's lovely and she's with Skinner, and they're probably in love and there's no justice in this world"

''I wish I could give you the memory I have of your mother that day. I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am.'' (p.184)

''He turned the first few pages and saw the dedication: 'To W.S.'

His eyes blurred, and for a long time he sat without moving.''

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Off, Williams, abi sen n'aptın ya? İçimiz dağlandı burada.

"He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.'' (p.184)

"He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.'' (p.184)

"He knew what he wished was impossible, and the knowledge saddened him'' (p.95)

''The unexamined life is not worth living. That had been Howard's callow teenage dictum. Nobody tells you, at seventeen, that examining it will be half the trouble'' (p.297)

''And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.''

Bitiremeyeceğimden emin olarak başladığım bir kitap daha. Çünkü neden? Çünkü bir saatte iki sayfa falan okuyabiliyorum ancak. Daha hızlı okuyunca anlamıyorum. Ama olsun, ne öğrensek kardır yine.

(Essay yazcam, bunu okumam lazım demiyo da)

Chapter V is sexy.