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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

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What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either.

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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams...more

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Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.

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The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong.

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The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see thi...more

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What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.

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Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each oth...more

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Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

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A man could be at the coffee-house every evening laughing and playing cards with his friends, he could have so much fun with his classmates that there...more

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...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs, high ideals--only p...more

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There are two kinds of Communists: the arrogant ones, who enter the fray hoping to make men out of the people and bring progress to the nation; and th...more

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We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. W...more

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Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beaut...more

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With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceab...more