Language Quote by Elif Shafak

“When you master a language, you are given the key to a castle. What you’ll find inside depends on you.” quote by Elif Shafak — Download Open image

““When you master a language, you are given the key to a castle. What you’ll find inside depends on you.””

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“Od nje je naučio dvije osnovne stvari o ljubavi: prvo, da je, za razliku od onoga što romantici tako naduto tvrde, ljubav više postupan…

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“Why roots were rated so highly compared with branches or leaves, Peri had never understood. Trees had multiple shoots and filaments extending in every…

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“How could they be so certain of the superiority of their truths when they knew so little, if anything at all, about other cultures,…

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“Her insanın erafında bir renk halesi vardır. Seninkini biliyor musun?”

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“I'm not one of those pious types who spend their whole lives hunched on prayer rugs while their eyes and hearts remain closed to the outside world. They read the Qur'an only on the surface. But I read the Qur'an in the budding flowers and migrating birds. I read the Brething Qur'an secreted in human beings. Every man is an…

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“England has a peculiar way of making foreigners feel exhilaratingly free and depressingly alone.”

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“There are things so awful in this world that the good-hearted people, may Allah bless them all, have absolutely no idea of. And that's perfectly fine, I tell you: it is all right that they know nothing about such things because it proves what good-hearted people they are. Otherwise they wouldn't be good, would they? But if you ever step…

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“Irrationality is part of everyday rationale”

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“In love, boundaries are blurred.”

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“It had just hit her why and how people could fall in love with Istanbul, in spite of all the sorrow it might cause…

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“Inside, I found three things: a silver mirror, a silk handkerchief, and a glass flask of ointment. These items will help you on your journey. use them when need be. If you ever lose faith in yourself, the mirror will show your inner beauty. In case your reputation is stained, the handkerchief will remind you of how pure your heart…

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“Talent is a favor of the divine. To perfect it one must work hard.”

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A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels…

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I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity…

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