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More Quotes by Yaşar Kemal
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
The person I miss most is the one I could have been.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
