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"Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating."
"He felt better for his decision to be just another one of the Flock. There would be no ties now to the force that had driven him to learn, there would be no more challenge and no more failure."
"...boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short."
"For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do, and that was to fly. They were magnificent birds, all of them..."
"We went from one world into another that was almost exactly like it, forgettiug right away where we had come from, not caring where we were headed, living for the moment. Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth. The same rule holds for us now, of course: we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome."
"- Is there no such place as heaven?
-No, Jonathan, there is no such place. Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect... Perfection doesn't have any limits."
"The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly."
"Forget about faith! You didn't need faith to fly, you needed to understand flying. This is jast the same."
"I am a perfect, unlimited gull!"
"The gull sees farthest who flies highest... They're a thousand miles from heaven - and you say you want to show them heaven from where they stand!"
"If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?"
"...freedom is the very nature of his [gull] being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form."
"- I don't understand how you manage to love a mob of birds that has just tried to kill you?
- You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love."
"You need to keep finding yourself, a little more each day, that real, unlimited Fletcher Seagull."
Richard Bach
Jonathan Leavingston Seagul
Istanbul's fate is my fate. I'm attached to this city, because it has made me who I am.
Orhan Pamuk
Istanbul: Memories and the City
Notes: I miss Istanbul...
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