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“Time was a wave, almost cruel in its relentlessness as it whisked her life downstream, a life she had to constantly strain to keep from breaking apart.”

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The Vegetarian

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“It does not matter what kind of self-destruction you choose – as if the protagonists in Furmani – Sokolov let say conscious of inevitability of their ontological and eschatological destiny, which they by no means want to change, but they accept it with joy of their own and peculiar optimism. Someone buries herself/himself in the library, and someone in a suburban tavern – they would say – the result is the same. The starting point is always that of futility, and the ultimate goal is destruction, which leads to self-destruction of all that restrains them from the total immersion in their own suffering and the pain of their own existence.”

“Karaağaç tarafından, diğerlerinden çok daha yakınmış gibi gelen bir gümbürtü ile irkilince bornozun içine zorlukla sığdırdığı bembeyaz göğüsleri, koşmakta olan bir askerin üzerindeki el bombaları gibi sıçradı. Uzaktan bakınca hortuma benzeyen, ismini koyamadığı bir şey, insanları, ağaçları, binaları ve daha ne bulursa havaya katarak şehre doğru geliyordu.”