Virginia Woolf’un Kendine Ait Bir Oda’sı feminist eleştirinin klasikleşmiş eserlerinden biri. Woolf, kadınların tarih boyunca karşılaştıkları dezavantajların bir bir altını çiziyor. Edebiyatın ve tarihin kadınları marjinalleştiren bir erkek yapısı olduğunu söylerken, yıllarca süregelmiş bir kabulü, ..
“My greatest pleasure was the enjoyment of a serene sky amidst these verdant woods: yet I loved all the changes of Nature; and rain, and storm, and the beautiful clouds of heaven brought their delights with them. When rocked by the waves of the lake my spirits rose in triumph as a horseman feels wit..
“Beauty, the world seemed to say. And as if to prove it (scientifically) wherever he looked at the houses, at the railings, at the antelopes stretching over the palings, beauty sprang instantly. To watch a leaf quivering in the rush of air was an exquisite joy. Up in the sky swallows swooping, swerv..
“Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; corrected and tore up; cut out; put in; was in ecstasy; in despair; had his good nights and bad mornings; snatched at ideas and lost the..
After a mile or so, Pinocchio again heard the same faint voice whispwring: ‘‘Remember,little simpleton! Boys who stop studying anf turn their backs upon books and schools and teachers in order to give all their time to nonsense and pleasure, sooner or later come to grief.Oh, how well I know this! Ho..
Hayatta her an, her şey olabilir ve hiçbir şey göru¨ndu¨ğu¨ gibi olmayabilir…Söz konusu “insan” olduğunda tehlikenin bir adım geriden mi yoksa kilometrelerce öteden mi geleceğini asla kestiremezsiniz. Orhan Pamuk’a çok benzeyen bir adam tarafından dolandırılabilir, geçmişinizi gizlemek için zor kara..
As if in answer to his words there rose suddenly out of the vast gloom of the moor that strange cry which I had already heard upon the borders of the great Grimpen Mire. It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan in which it..
Kama is the enjoyment of appropriate objects by the five senses of hearing, feeling, seeing, tasting, and smelling, assisted by the mind together with the soul. The ingredient in this is a peculiar contact between the organ of sense and its object, and the consciousness of pleasure which arises from..
“My mind,” he said, “rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltati..
“Well, Holmes,” I murmured, “have you found anything out?”He stood beside me in silence, his candle in his hand. Then the tall, lean figure inclined towards me. “I say, Watson,” he whispered, “would you be afraid to sleep in the same room with a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot w..
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost a..