“To your utmost, listen to every beautiful song
As though filling all the self with sound and melody
One should plunge head-first into life
As one dives from a cliff into the emerald sea”

— Ataol Behramoğlu

I've Learned Some Things (2008)

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Turkish writer 1942

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