Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of the West. If that doesn’t work, we’ll try the other way, see if we can veer to the East. It’s no good to be in between. International politics does not appreciate ambiguity.
Never had it occurred to him that you could deceive the person you held dear. It was his first lesson in the complexity of love.
If you want to destroy something, be it a blemish, acne or the human soul, all you need to do is surround it with walls.
An aura surrounds every living thing, an aura in a different colour each time. Do you know what colour is yours?
She left her breast behind, the breast that covered her heart. And walked away.
We are all a little desexualized, a little defeminized. We can’t carry our bodies comfortably in a society that is so bent against women. In order to be a “brain” in the public realm, we control our “bodies.
Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.
If you want to destroy something in this life, be it acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.
Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.
Knowledge that does not take you beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.
Perhaps this is why lunatics have a harder time dating, not because they are off the wall but because it is hard to find soemone who is willing to date so many people in one person.
If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.
The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness.
What is the point of roaming the world when it’s the same misery everywhere?
The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.
Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities will lose their glamour.
Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.