Of Mice and Men
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After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who writes dirty words in a public toilet to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do.
It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
He is one of those whom God has not quite finished.
He did not often think of people as individuals, but rather as antidotes for the poison of his loneliness, as escapes from the imprisoned ghosts.
After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone or on the lives of other people.
Everyone has to be an orphan some time.
Yaşamak ve üretmek için gerekli olanları elde etmekten başka insanoğlunun en en çok istediği şey geriye kendisinden bir iz bırakmaktır; belki de kendisinin gerçekten var olduğunu ispatlayacak bir kanıt bırakma peşindedir, bu kanıtı bir tahta üzerine, taş üzerine ya da diğer insanların yaşantıları üzerine bırakır. Bu derin istek herkes de vardır; tuvalet duvarlarına ayıp ifadeler yazan çocuktan kendi imajını insan soyunun zihnine kazıyan Budda’ya kadar Yaşam öylesine gerçek dışı ki… Var olduğumuz konusunda ciddi kuşkularımız olduğunu ve bunu kanıtlamaya çalıştığımızı düşünüyorum.
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Dead Souls
The Shadow of the Wind
The Prisoner of Heaven
The Empusium
The Secret Scripture
The Signature of All Things
Angel Time
The Children of Men
Cutting for Stone
The Screwtape Letters
The Fall
Walden & Civil Disobedience
A Passage to India
The Man Without Qualities
Elective Affinities
The Fall of Babel
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Crime and Punishment
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
In Search of Lost Time
Human, All Too Human
The High Mountains of Portugal
The Complete Short Novels
Jubal Sackett
Embers
East of Eden
The Lacuna
Jayber Crow
Fathers and Sons
Independent People
Libra
The Zürau Aphorisms
Daniel Deronda
Adam Bede
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Walden and other writings
Gargoyles
The Black Obelisk
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy
Beautiful Ruins
The Count of Monte Cristo
Under Western Eyes
The Idiot
Middlemarch
The Man with the Compound Eyes
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Beyond Good and Evil
Ragtime
The Recognitions
1Q84
The Schopenhauer Cure
The Jewel in the Crown
Humboldt's Gift
Concrete
Demons
Cuckold
The Lincoln Highway
Birds Without Wings
The Death of the Heart

