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my soul wants to leave its chrysalis / and fly to you, and kiss your fiery lips; / and float in an aura that casts a pale light on your forehead / and in celestial ecstasy, I will not stop loving you for a moment!

Rubén Darío, Venus

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I can recognize you from your smell. It acts as my therapy.

Zülfü Livaneli, Serenad

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First, I remember thinking “She’s a cute girl.” A few days later I started saying “She’s a beautiful girl!” A week later my thoughts turned into “She has beautiful eyes”. And a while later I was thinking “Her face, her eyes, her body is like the masterpiece of a painter.”

Zülfü Livaneli, Serenad

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In you I find resemblance to places I’ve been searching for.

Sabahattin Ali, Öyle Günler Gördüm Ki

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We all carry an alligator inside, covered up by secret and kind acts yet emerges with its sharp teeth upon sensing a threat.

Zülfü Livaneli, Serenade

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Şu sen de olmasan insan çıldıracak mı?

Edip Cansever, Ey

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Yanımda olmanı istiyorum diyemediğim için bu yağmur içimi ıslatıyor dediğimi nasıl anlamaz?

Zülfü Livaneli, Serenad

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Should a single drop of tear come down your eyes, I shall dry it off by kissing your beautiful eyes with my warm lips.

Sabahattin Ali, in a letter to his wife Aliye

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I desire to live only for you, to let go of all the things in my life other than you.

Sabahattin Ali, in a letter to his wife Aliye

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If there’s a single meaning to life on this earth, it is to love.

Sabahattin Ali, in a letter to his wife Aliye

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And if I had been fond of you for twenty years, I couldn’t have been fonder of you than I am now.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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If my hand trembles, it is because it has never been held by a pretty little hand like yours.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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One cannot help asking oneself: what power made those sad, pensive eyes flash with such power?

Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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Loving you like a madman despite all these differences surely must be a work of the devil.

Sabahattin Ali, İçimizdeki Şeytan

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Seni benim kadar, hatta benden başka kim dinler? Kim seninle beraber üzülür?

Sabahattin Ali, İçimizdeki Şeytan

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Infinite pain and despair has a break.

A friend of mine, Egemen, just now

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The crows assert that a single crow could destroy the heavens. This is certainly true, but it proves nothing against the heavens, because heaven means precisely: the impossibility of crows.

Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms