kürk mantolu madonna - sabahattin ali

"şimdi aramızda noksan olan şeyin ne olduğunu biliyorum." dedi. "bu eksiklik sana değil, bana ait...bende inanmak noksanmış... beni bu kadar çok sevdiğine bir türlü inanmadığım için sana aşık olmadığı zannediyormuşum... bunu şimdi anlıyorum. demek ki, insanlar benden inanmak kabiliyetini almışlar.... ama şimdi inanıyorum... sen beni inandırdın. seni seviyorum. deli gibi değil, gayet aklı başında olarak seviyorum... seni istiyorum...içimde müthiş bir arzu var... bir iyi olsam!"

Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

Did I do the right thing?
"You did the right thing," the boy named Crow says. "You did what was best. No one else could have done as well as you did. After all, you're the genuine article: the toughest fifteen-year-old in the world."
"But I still don't know anything about life," I protested.
"Look at the painting" he says. "And listen to the wind."
I nod.
"I know you can do it."
I nod again.
"You'd better get some sleep," the boy named Crow says. When you wake up, you'll be part of a brand-new world."
You finally fall asleep. And when you wake up, it's true.
You are part of a brand-new world.

from the movie - onegin

"...Help me, resolve my doubts. Perhaps all this is nonsence, emptiness, a delusion and quite another fate awaits me. Imagine it, I'm here alone half out of my mind. I dread to read this over, my secret longing. I know that I can trust your honour, though I feel faint from shame and fear, Tatyana"

human

I've finally finished reading "the great gatsby", and i found this writing afterwards;

'Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter --tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. ... And one fine morning ---- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.'

"I have a different interpretation of this passage.

As a culture, Americans (and perhaps humans in general) are constantly seeking to distance themselves from the past. It's everywhere I look. Think about the great masses of teenagers whose sole aim in life is to "get out of this stupid town." We're always trying to escape the past, to lead better lives than our parents, to find something new and exciting. Think about the line "tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther." We live our lives constantly striving to better our situation tomorrow, or next month, or next year. We live for a dream, seeking a future that we imagine in our minds.

The character of Gatsby is the manifestation of this desire. He is a dreamer. In his futile pursuit of Daisy, he seeks an unattainable, shapeless future that reflects all of our hopeless dreams. Daisy could be that coveted promotion, the corner office, maybe an artistic achievement, like the Great American Novel or Rock stardom.

But it never works. The final sentence says as much. We are rowing our boats toward the future, but we will never get there, because the current flows toward the past. No matter how hard we row, it will all be futile, because we'll always end up in the past.

Yet Fitzgerald stops short of condemning this pursuit; instead, he acknowledges that it is a part of human nature. Notice how he says, "So we beat on..." like it's inevitable that we row our boats this way, despite the current flowing in the opposite direction. This is what makes The Great Gatsby a tragedy. It's like Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, which recognises the tragedy of the pursuit of the romantic life. It is a part of who we are. It is human."

"Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."

Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby

this is a quote from an e-mail : )

"Heart is the only re-Source we all have that is effective. Here’s the best part; you don’t have to do anything to have it all. All you have to do is surrender and go back to basics. If the book you are reading doesn’t touch your heart or generate feelings of gratitude, joy, serenity, empowerment or laughter, you probably don’t need it. If this or that philosophy, teaching or discipline is beginning to feel hollow or cold, then you don’t need it. If you are trying to hard to be a perfect spiritual/human being, then you don’t need that either. You already own your own Consciousness, so how can you even ‘own’ it again? Just be it, and allow of it to just be what it Is. You can’t improve on that, or add anything else to it. It’s back to basics. Experience it all without resisting. Choose it all without fearing. Live it all with love.

So be it."

"Kendimizi iyi hissetmemizi sağlayan her şey bizim için iyi değildir. Bize acı veren her şey de kötü olmayabilir."

Alain de Botton - Felsefenin Tesellisi

biraz geç oldu ama şimdi buldum yazdığım kağıdı : )

2007 İstanbul Bienal'inde beni etkileyen bir cümle vardı, Jonathan Barnbrook adlı sanatçının posterlerinin üzerinde yazıyordu bu cümle:
"Instead of a day of remembrance let us have a day of forgetting where we all agree, once a year to forget any anger we feel towards others going forward with a wow to let historic and ethic differences be part of the past. Not a division for the future. Surely this is a better way to honor the dead."