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" Hazin tarafı şu ki, bu cins azapları bütün dünya bir asır evvel yaşadı, bitirdi. Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx geldiler, geçtiler.
Dostoyevski Suat'tan seksen sene evvel bu azabı çekti. Bizim için yeni nedir bilir misiniz? Ne Eluard'ın şiiri, ne de Comte Stravoguine'in azabıdır. Bizim için yeni, en ufak Türk köyünde, Anadolu'nun en ücra köşesinde bu akşam olan cinayet, arazi kavgası veya boşanma hadisesidir. Bilmem, fikrimi anlayabiliyor musunuz? "
― Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar , Huzur
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" Returning to his homeland, he had been refused both the position and the funding he would need to cure the entire nation with his miraculous practice and, by the time we met, resentment had seeped into almost every aspect of his person.
Dr. Ramiz's great passion for social issues served only to feed his anger. After speaking with him for several hours, or rather suffering his complaints, his analyses of social ills, and his assorted musings of the future, I could neither imagine nor indeed genuinely wish for a world in which all might attain happiness through work befitting their person or capacity.
And so it was on that first day that I realized Dr. Ramiz was the incarnation of discontent. Although possessed of a fine arsenal of bon mots -words and phrases like "adolescence," "domestic issues," "public education," "production," and, in particular, "activity," were forever trickling out of his mouth - he was the kind of man who never could apply himself to a task for very long and who was only content when complaining or occupying himself with mandatory tasks, which is why, despite a fine position and a fixed place in society, he saw himself as a miserable and mistreated man with a dim future...Since his return from Vienna, he had, in his bitterness, swept his life empty of friends. "
― Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar , Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü