Bir Avu?º Deniz Quotes

Bora Ãatak: The man who puts a paper weight on his papers before opening a window. That's what the school year book said about you.

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Bora Ãatak: There are two rules for good gambling. First, learn how to lose. Second, never put irreplaceable things on the table.

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Mert Akbay: You can only be my harbor.

Movie: Bir Avu?º Deniz
Mert Akbay: Let it be to anchor on your shore forever. If I sail off to the seas without you, Loneliness will be my only lover in my lightless future. So come to my arms! Be the reward of this weary sailor Make him drunk with your presence... Either I will be nailed down here with you, or I will kidnap you just like Helen of Sparta. We'll sail off into each other, chanting in unison: Aganta burina burinata...

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Mert Akbay: So, have you been caught in the net?

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Deniz Demirci: I got caught in the fishing net.

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Deniz Demirci: I go with the wind.

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Deniz Demirci: Buying... Selling... These are big boys' business.

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Deniz Demirci: He who wins at gambling, loses in love
Dilek Hanoglu: Who won?
Deniz Demirci: Mert

Movie: Bir Avu?º Deniz
Deniz Demirci: Mert, why is your name Mert / Brave? My father gave me this name. Maybe I really am brave. Nietzsche says What was silent in the father speaks in the son.
Mert Akbay: What does this mean?
Dilek Hanoglu: Are you saying Mert's father can't be brave?
Deniz Demirci
Mert Akbay: I can't say that but it's a possibility.
Mert Akbay: So why is your name Deniz / Sea?
Deniz Demirci: No particular reason. But the philosophical depth of the name is dizzying. Life is a sea. We're all parts of it. Just like waves. Whether we sink or float is beyond our willpower. Our destinies are written by the winds that carry us.
Dilek Hanoglu: Is this fatalism or what?
Deniz Demirci: No, it's not. But fatalism is a great anti-depressant. Only, fate doesn't exist. There is no route, no track, nothing.
Aylin Kargin Ãatak: Then what is there?
Deniz Demirci: Nothing, really. There's nothing we can decide with our willpower. It wasn't my decision to be born into my family, or to be born in that place. We're all droplets in an ocean. Of course, we don't feel comfortable with this fact, believing in the reverse is more fashionable. We feel more powerful that way. We feel more in control.
Dilek Hanoglu: I don't think we're droplets in an ocean but ships sailing towards a destination. We all have routes.For example... I take this glass... and drink up. I wanted to and I did.
Deniz Demirci: Yes, but the fact that you drank it does not determine you.
Mert Akbay: What if there was poison in the glass?
Deniz Demirci: The same questions all the time! Drinking poison would bloody determine you. But no one would swallow poison just for the fun of it, would they? Think of this: If it wasn't for the engineers who designed airplanes would you be able to fly in a metal box? Life is similar. We're told not to worry,

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Deniz Demirci: Every mortal will get to know Deniz one day.

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Dilek Hanoglu: Dad says your CEO is a very close friend of his.
Mert Akbay: Yeah, everyone in Istanbul is a close friend of everyone else. Provided their wallets are full.

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Mert Akbay: Any man in his right mind would like to have you forever.
Dilek Hanoglu: I hope you're in your right mind.

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Cengiz Akbay: Did you study arts in college?
Deniz Demirci: No, philosophy.
Cengiz Akbay: But it wasn't an informed choice.
Deniz Demirci: I chose it to get my father's attention.
Cengiz Akbay: It must've been an over whelming choice for a young girl.
Deniz Demirci: What we don't choose in life can be more over whelming than what we do choose.

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Rana Akbay: I can't remember her at all. It's been a long time.
Deniz Demirci: Maybe it's because she was too beautiful for other women to want to remember.

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Ruhi: This is how it goes. Just stay in the game, all right?

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Mert Akbay: Mom, it's you who suffocates me. I'm just like a tree that you've been pruning for years.
Rana Akbay: These are not your words. These are the words of a shrewish girl who constantly fights.
Mert Akbay: My father had his books and you had your son. I'm your project, your story, your novel.

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Deniz Demirci: You are the one who stands before him. You are the biggest obstruction he faces. Mert gave up his life to live yours!

Movie: Bir Avu?º Deniz
Deniz Demirci: Mert, why is your name Mert / Brave? My father gave me this name. Maybe I really am brave. Nietzsche says What was silent in the father speaks in the son.
Mert Akbay: What does this mean?
Dilek Hanoglu: Are you saying Mert's father can't be brave?
Deniz Demirci: I can't say that but it's a possibility.
Mert Akbay: So why is your name Deniz / Sea?
Deniz Demirci: No particular reason. But the philosophical depth of the name is dizzying. Life is a sea. We're all parts of it. Just like waves. Whether we sink or float is beyond our willpower. Our destinies are written by the winds that carry us.
Dilek Hanoglu: Is this fatalism or what?
Deniz Demirci: No, it's not. But fatalism is a great anti-depressant. Only, fate doesn't exist. There is no route, no track, nothing.
Aylin Kargin Ãatak: Then what is there?
Deniz Demirci: Nothing, really. There's nothing we can decide with our willpower. It wasn't my decision to be born into my family, or to be born in that place. We're all droplets in an ocean. Of course, we don't feel comfortable with this fact, believing in the reverse is more fashionable. We feel more powerful that way. We feel more in control.
Dilek Hanoglu: I don't think we're droplets in an ocean but ships sailing towards a destination. We all have routes.For example... I take this glass... and drink up. I wanted to and I did.
Deniz Demirci: Yes, but the fact that you drank it does not determine you.
Mert Akbay: What if there was poison in the glass?
Deniz Demirci: The same questions all the time! Drinking poison would bloody determine you. But no one would swallow poison just for the fun of it, would they? Think of this: If it wasn't for the engineers who designed airplanes would you be able to fly in a metal box? Life is similar. We're told not to worry, everything is taken care of,

Movie: Bir Avu?º Deniz