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    Orhan Pamuk
    “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life
    tags: books, orhan-pamuk, reading, the-new-life
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, Snow
    tags: happiness, love
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
    tags: anthromorphism, dogs, pets
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
    tags: love
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
    tags: painting
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
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    Zülfü Livaneli
    “Evet, insan her şeyi unutarak yaşayabilirdi ama her şeyi hatırlayarak yaşayamazdı.”
    ― Zülfü Livaneli, Kardeşimin Hikâyesi
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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  • #11
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Bruce Lee
    “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: expectations, individuality, peer-pressure, wisdom
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    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
    “Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.”
    ― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: First President and Founder of the Turkish Republic
    tags: ataturk, politics, turk, women
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    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
    “Science is the most reliable guide in life.”
    ― Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
    tags: inspirational, science
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    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
    “The biggest battle is the war against ignorance.”
    ― Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
    tags: battle, educaton, ignorance, science
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Irvin D. Yalom
    “Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.”
    ― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
    tags: truth
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    Irvin D. Yalom
    “Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.”
    ― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
    tags: despair, life
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    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
    tags: life, peace
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    tags: government
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    Sabahattin Ali
    “Bu eksik sana değil, bana ait. Bende inanmak noksanmış. Beni bu kadar çok sevdiğine bir türlü inanamadığım için, sana aşık olmadığımı zannediyormuşum. Bunu şimdi anlıyorum. Demek ki, insanlar benden inanmak kabiliyetini almışlar. Ama şimdi inanıyorum. Sen beni inandırdın. Seni seviyorum. Deli gibi değil, gayet aklı başında olarak seviyorum.”
    ― Sabahattin Ali, Kürk Mantolu Madonna
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    tags: life-memories
    6509 likes



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