When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one, I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destr...
The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people have so very much in common; measured against eternity and the greatness of creation, t...
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.
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 hav...
In the beginning the point was not to have a point, to escape the world in which everyone had to have a job, a desk, an office.
Colour is the touch of the eye,Music to the deaf,A word out of darkness.
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 w...
A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter...
قبلا فکر میکردم که اگه دو نفر به هم همیشه راست بگن ،یعنی عین حقیقت رو بگن،باید خیلی باهم صمیمی باشن ولی الآن دیدم که انگار باید برای حفظ صمیمیت، بعضی جاها دروغ هم بگی
أين الأرواح المتشابهة (المتناسخة) التى أستطيع التحدث معها؟ أين البلاد التى أجد فيها الحلم الذى تحدث إلى قلبى؟ أين هؤلاء الذين قرءوا الكتاب أيضاً؟
İnsan hepsini aynı anda düşünemiyor ama görebiliyordu. Aklımdaki kelimelerin, aklımdaki hayallere yetişememesi gibi bir şeydi bu. Kelimeler duygularıma yetişemiyor ve yetersiz kalıyorlardı.
¿Por qué nos inquieta un hombre bañado en lágrimas? Una mujer que llora puede considerarse una parte excepcional pero conmovedora y digna de pena, de nuestra vida cotidiana, la acogemos con sinceridad...
When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so well after a number of years that in a fit of melancholy, perhaps stirred...
What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?'Be yourself,' said Ipek.
Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.
Hiçbir şey, her şeyi unutabilmenin verdiği huzurdan değerli olamaz.
Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.
As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.
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 th...
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...