"If only our eyes saw souls instead of bodies. How very different our ideas of beauty would be."
"لو كانت أعيننا فقط ترى الأرواح بدلاً من الأجساد. ما مدى اختلاف أفكارنا عن الجمال."
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If there is one thing that humans share through out history, it's our inability to let go when we should. We make up stories about ghosts and reincarnations and spirits when our beloved die so we would feel their gentle touch in the wind, their loving kiss in the sun. We hold on to flowers when their beauty fades and their petals fall because we can't bear the thought of giving them back to the earth. We go to ancient libraries and theatres and museums and wonder about our history and our memories and our ancestry. We recite poetry from ages about which not much is known and wish to have lived then. We search strangers for traces of our lovers. We keep rusty music boxes to listen to our lullabies, and long for the sweet dreamless sleep that used to follow; knowing full well the enchantment can no longer be sealed, but we cast the broken spell anyway. I, personally, almost got really fucking pissed to see that someone had misplaced my bookmark all the way back to the begining, after forgetting for an instant that I've eventually finished reading that particular book, and that this someone was none other than myself, then set out, if miserably, in search of another that I know would never be half as good. But I'll keep looking anyways. When you come to think of it, the things we hold on to are no longer the things they initially were, theyre no longer fragnant and soothing and lovely, but we relish in remembering the fragrance and the soothing and the love nonetheless. We hope that after all is over, we meet with them again, that our memory, as if by magic, turns into flesh and petal and note.
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Dark Academia (Turkish Style)
Learning Turkish, Kurdish, Azerbaijan, Arabic, and Urdu because Turks are a mix of everything tbh
Drinking Chai and Turkish Coffee 24/7
Watching Turkish Dramas
Nassar (Evil Eye) Everywhere
Waking up early to pray Fajr to the sunrise while reading Quran
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{Hannah Green, from "Are you still hungry, Mother?"/ Anne Carson/Sam Gordon, "A Mother's Hate"/ Ella Wilson/ Joan Tierney/ Ella Wilson/ Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous/ Unknown/ Nayyirah Waheed/ Sharon Olds, “Holding To A Wall, Treading Saltwater”/ John Green, Turtles All the Way Down/ Safia Elhillo, "an inheritance," published in Narrative Northeast/ Annie Ernaux, from I Remain in Darkness/ Poplar Street by Chen Chen/ Unknown/ Tumblr User: @inkskinned/ Elena Poniatowska, from "La Flor de Lis," published c. January 2011/ Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom}
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ÇELİKSAN ARAÇ KALDIRMA LİFTİ
SİPARİŞ İÇİN 0533 031 5890
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Love letter from 1913 that opens up to form an art gallery.
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work song by hozier / mahmoud darwish
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“Birds born in a cage believe that freedom is a crime”
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“Killing the flowers will not delay spring.”
(Al-Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, Syria)
LITTLE PALESTINE, DIARY OF A SIEGE (2021) DIR. ABDALLAH AL-KHATIB
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[Lyrics & translation from Arabic song take me in your arms]
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In Arabic we don’t say “good bye” we say “فِي أَمَانِ اللّٰه ” which translates “I leave you in the care of Allah” and i think that’s beautiful.
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"A university degree, four books and hundreds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. You wrote me "Good morning" and I read it as "I love you".
Mahmoud Darwish
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Garous Abdolmalekain, Lean Against This Late Hour
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{Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath/ Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest/ Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life/ Susan Sontag/ Liv Ullmann, from Changing (Knopf, 1976)/ Katherine Mansfield, in a letter to J.M. Murry, dated December 14, 1919, Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield (Penguin Classics, 1977)/ Anne Sexton,A Self-Portrait in Letters/ Anne Sexton,A Self-Portrait in Letters/ Richard Siken/ Papi/ Anais Nin/ Ghada Al-Samman/ Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings}
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