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Bagdad-on-the-Subway.
~ O. Henry
?çimin mevsimlerine de hiç uymaz ?u tabiat.
~ Unknown
Fakat, sonradan garson olmu? bir filozof ya da filozof olmu? bir garsona göre, insanlar kar???k salataya benzer.
~ Unknown
Çeli?kili duyarl?klara ayn? anda yer veren insan?n iç dünyas? çok ba?kayd?. Bir Bach sonat?yla bir Beethoven senfonisinin yanyana çal?nmas? onun yan?nda bir ?ey ifade etmiyordu.
~ Unknown
Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love.
~ Octave Mirbeau
I was thinking of love,' I replied in a tone of reproach, 'and here you are talking to me again—forever—about torture!' 'Doubtless! since it's the same thing—
~ Octave Mirbeau
Et ce souvenir brusquement évoqué met un nuage de mélancolie dans la gaîté de ce joli matin.
~ Octave Mirbeau
You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I don't like most Utopia stories because I don't believe them for a moment. It seems inevitable that my Utopia would be someone else's hell.
~ Octavia E. Butler
The stars are free." She shrugs. "I'd rather have the city lights back myself, the sooner the better. But we can afford the stars.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I'd rather have the city lights back myself, the sooner the better. But we can afford the stars.
~ Octavia E. Butler
You are horror and beauty in rare combination. In a very real way, you've captured us, and we can't escape.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I think that I shall never see, a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
~ Ogden Nash
I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
~ Ogden Nash
I think that I shall never seeA billboard lovely as a tree.Indeed, unless the billboards fallI'll never see a tree at all.
~ Ogden Nash
I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
~ Ogden Nash
In every darkness, there is enough light for you to discover your path. In every light, there is abundant darkness for you to miss your path
~ Unknown
Then you realize: night gives the world back its natural, original appearance, without suger-coating it; day is a flight of fancy, light a slight exception, an oversight, a disruption of the order. The world in fact is dark, almost black. Motionless and cold.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Then you realize: night gives the world back its natural, original appearance, without sugar-coating it; day is a flight of fancy, light a slight exception, an oversight, a disruption of the order. The world in fact is dark, almost black. Motionless and cold.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
There are two points of view in the world: the frog's perspective and bird's-eye view. Any point in between just leads to chaos.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Infants and old people look the same.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
It's strange how the Night erases all colors, as if it didn't give a damn about such worldly extravagance.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
the point here was appropriation via antithesis.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
It's a feature of flashlights that they're only visible in the daytime.
~ Olga Tokarczuk