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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 people living in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.' 'Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.
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ideals
martyrdom
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when we reach the point when our lives take on their final shape as in a novel we can identify our happiest moment selecting it in retrospective
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lmwt lys nhy@ kl shy , whdh mw'kd , wlknh mw'lm l~ HdW l ymkn tSwWrh , wtHmWl hdh l'lm Gyr lmHdwd S`b l~ HdW 'n jzan mn `qly yr~ mkhrjh lwHyd nsyn hdh l'mr wlndf` bqw@ nHw nwm hny' .
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qbl fkhr mykhrdm khh gh dw nfr bh hm hmyshh rst bgn ,y`ny `yn Hqyqt rw bgn,byd khyly bhm Smymy bshn wly lan dydm khh ngr byd bry HfZ Smymyt, b`Dy jh drwG hm bgy
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Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness
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sh`rt bdf fy dkhly w 'n '`ml , km sh`rt 'nny mn `bd llh lSlHyn . thmW d`wt l~ llh mTwWlan lky l yHrmny sh`wr lSlH hdh .
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WHAT MAKES CITY LIFE MEANINGFUL IS THE THINGS WE HIDE.
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No one recognises the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe that they are living that golden instant 'now', even having lived such moments before, but whatever they say, in one part of their hearts they still believe that a happier moment to come. Because how could anyone, particularly anyone who is young, carry on with the belief that everything could only ..
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Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.
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memories
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lHb hw lrGb@ fy 'n ttmsk bsr`@ bshkhS akhr w'n tkwn m` fy nfs lmkn; fhw lrGb@ fy 'l tSbH mhtm bl`lm w'nt tHtDn lakhr. nh rGb@ mlH@ fy l`thwr `l~ mrf' amn lrwHk lnsny@.
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Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?
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After a time, my hand had become as skilled as my eyes. So if I was drawing a very fine tree, it felt as if my hand was moving without me directly it. As I watched the pencil race across the page, I would look on it in amazement, as if the drawing were the proof of another presence, as if someone else had taken up residence in my body. As I marveled at his work aspiring to become his equal, another part of my brain was busy inspecting the c..
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For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life.
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But just like believing in God, falling in love is such a sacred feeling that it leaves you with no room for any other passions.
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Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they'd had to share their rooms with others.
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women
womens-rights
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If we love someone very much, we know that even if we give him the most valuable thing we have, we know not to expect harm from him. This is what a sacrifice is.
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l`lWhm `tdw . m 'sw' hdh ! ln lnsn whw myWt ysh`r bn lHy@ lty trkh khlfh tsyr km trkh , wkm knt fy lmDy.
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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. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches, more humane, and much more joyful.
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individuality
life
museums
art
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The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory -- of this there is no doubt.
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memories
things
memory
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It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it. Had I known, had I cherished this gift, would everything have turned out differently?
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at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not real life, dreams conjured up by words.
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words
ideas
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kl shy' fy lb`ydi ynthy .
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Love is the urgency to hold fast to another and to be together in the same place. It's the desire to keep the world out by embracing another. It is the yearning to find a safe harbor for the human soul.
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These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. --- from the notebooks of Celal Salik
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This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.
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time
living-life
museums
timelessness
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I'm a dog, and because you humans are much less rational beasts than I, you're telling yourselves, 'Dogs don't talk.' Nethertheless, you seem to believe a story in which corpses speak and characters use words they couldn't possibly know. Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
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And before long, the music, the views rushing past the window, my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into one, and it seemed to me that while we would never find answers to these fundamental questions, it was good for us to ask them anyway.
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Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.
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family
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If I see my city as beautiful and bewitching, then my life must be so too.
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To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?
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reading
reality
novel
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The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep
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In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life.
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joy-of-seeing
joy-of-life
painting
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SrWH SHb dkn yHb lklm lwjyz b'n lzby'n fy lHqyq@ l yshtrwn l'lbs@, bl yshtrwn khylan. m 'rdw shrh fy lHqyq@ hw 'n ykwnw mthl "lakhryn" ldhyn yrtdwn tlk l'lbs@."
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It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one knew who was dead or who was celebrating what - but an archipelago of neighbourhoods in which everyone knew each other.
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The city's more beautiful at night, you know: the people of the night always tell the truth.
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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 the innocent ones, who get involved because they believe in equality and justice. The arrogant ones are obsessed with power; they presume to think for everyone; only bad can come of them. But the innocents? The only harm they do is to themselves. But that's all they ever wanted in the first plac..
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snow
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My fear was not the fear of God but, as in the case of the whole Turkish secular bourgeoisie, fear of the anger of those who believe in God too zealously(...) I experienced the guilt complex as something personal, originated less from the fear of distancing myself from God than from distancing myself from the sense of community shared by the entire city .
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In a city where men are killing each other like animals just to make it a happier place, who has the right to stop me from killing myself?
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Benim icin kitap okurken hala onemli olan anlamaktan cok, okudugum seye uygun dusler kurmaktir.
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reading
books
kitaplar
okumak
kitap
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Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.
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artists-life
artist
insight
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To be left with only the trace of a memory is to gaze at an armchair that's still molded to the form of a love who has left never to return: It is to grieve, dear reader, it is to weep.
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You cannot embark on life, that one-off coach ride, once again when it is over, but if you have a book in your hand, no matter how complex or difficult, when you have finished it, you can, if you wish, go back to the beginning, read it again, and thus understand that which is difficult and, with it, understand life as well.
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The ideal story should begin innocently like a fairy-tale, be frightening like a nightmare in the middle, and conclude sadly like a love story ending in separation.
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dh ftHti `ynyki ljmyltyn htyn fln ySybki mkrwh , l tqlqy .
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