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...
أنا تعيسة لإني لا أفهم مايقول قلبي
The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.
In twenty years’ time—in other words, when you’re thirty-seven years old—you will have understood at last that all the evil in the world—I mean the poverty and ignorance of the poor and the cunning an...
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.
If I see my city as beautiful and bewitching, then my life must be so too.
Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?
A Good Education Removes the Barriers Between Rich and Poor
إن الإنسان لا يعرفُ ما يفكرُ فيه بدقة في أي وقت . أنا أفكرُ على النحو التالي : أقول عبارةً ما أحياناً ، و في أثناء قولي تلك العبارة أجدُ أنني فهمتها ، و لكنني عندما أفهمها أفكرُ بعكسها واثقة .
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?
For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.
The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion; if you want to live in the paradise where happy mares and stallion live, open your eyes wide an...
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
What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles somewhere around the upper belly but soon spread out to the chest, the thighs, and t...
For me it has always been a city of ruins and of end-of-empire melancholy. I’ve spent my life either battling with this melancholy or (like all İstanbullus) making it my own.
Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.
All the happiness and beauty that life had to offer only revealed themselves when his mind drifted off into fantasies of a world far removed from his own.
إذا فتحتِ عينيكِ الجميلتين هاتين فلن يصيبكِ مكروه ، لا تقلقي .
The difference lies in the fact that in Istanbul the remains of a glorious past civilization are everywhere visible. No matter how ill-kept, no matter how neglected or hemmed in they are by concrete m...
I have in all honesty believed that two people with similar names must have similar characters, that an unfamiliar word - be it Turkish or foreign - must be semantically similar to a word spelt like i...