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“İnsanoğlu nedense anlayamadığı şeylere kötülemeye meyilli.”

Life Writing Philosophy Truth Imagination Experience

Author:Elif Şafak

“Her maktul katilinde yaşamaya devam eder.”

Life Writing Philosophy Truth Imagination Experience

Author:Elif Şafak

“Kim olursak olalım, dünyanın hangi yerinde yaşarsak yaşayalım, ta derinlerde bir yerde hepimiz bir eksiklik duygusu taşımaktayız. Sanki temel bir şeyimizi kaybetmişiz de geri alamamaktan korkuyoruz. Neyin eksik olduğunu bilenimizde hakikaten çok az.”

Life Writing Philosophy Truth Imagination Experience

Author:Elif Şafak

“There was not school in the village where Auntie Binnaz had grown up, and her father had not allowed her to walk the rutted road to town and back every day, with her brothers. They didn't have enough pairs of shoes, and she had to take care of her younger siblings anyway.”

Education Poverty Inequality Gender Roles Misogny Education Of Girls

Book:10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

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“Kader", people called it --'destiny -- and said not more because people always gave simple names to the complex things that frightened them”

Names Fear Destiny Simplicity Complexity Naming

Book:10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

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“. . . finding the familiarity of captivity more reassuring than the strange call of freedom.”

Fear Freedom Acceptance Familiarity Captivity Stockholm Syndrome

Book:10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

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“Little did she understand that the end of childhood comes not when a child's body changes with puberty, but when her mind is finally able to see her life through the eyes of an outsider.”

Perspective Maturity Puberty Loss Of Innocence Childhood Innocence

Book:10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

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“You sure? It's a serious thing to believe in someone. You can't just say it like that. If you really mean it, you have to support them no matter what. Even when other people say awful things about that person. Are you capable of doing that?”

Love Belief Loyalty Comittment

Book:10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

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