We are people who need to love, because Love is the soul’s life, Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.

Hafez

I’ve never left Istanbul, never left the houses, streets, and neighborhoods of my childhood.

Orhan Pamuk

We are like the river, always flowing, changing shape but never losing our essence.

Driss Chraïbi

Indonesia is not a country but a world in itself, with all its diversity, struggles, and dreams woven into the fabric of its people.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer