Persona (2018– )
Haluk Bilginer: Agâh Beyoglu
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Quotes
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Agâh Beyoglu : Think of your health. A little exercise won't kill you. Why are you in the elevator? Just use the stairs. See? It's bad for the heart.
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Agâh Beyoglu : But sooner or later, I will forget things, right? All my memories, experiences will be erased, they will go away. What will happen to me? Phone numbers aren't that important. But what will happen to my personality?
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Agâh Beyoglu : People don't listen to each other properly. Automatic answers without waiting. Everything is automated now, and they say we can't get along.
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Agâh Beyoglu : You are alive but you don't exist. How can someone endure this?
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Agâh Beyoglu : Wouldn't that be awesome? If we forget everything wrong, and only remember the correct things?
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Agâh Beyoglu : A bomb goes off, killing 50 people, and you don't panic. But when people are picked off one by one, then you do. Is that it?
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Agâh Beyoglu : I am 65 years old now. I made a wish again, just like a child. An impossible wish, of course. Do you know what I wished for? To become a good person.
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Agâh Beyoglu : Don't tell me that you loved too. Yours isn't love. It's rancor. You don't love with rancor.
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Agâh Beyoglu : "Unjust provocation... Time off for good behavior." Mitigation after mitigation. They could have given you a medal too.
Agâh Beyoglu : They gave proper consideration but they didn't deal proper retribution.
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Deva : By the way, let me introduce you guys. Suveyda, my grandfather.
Agâh Beyoglu : Nice to meet you... I hope you're using protection. I can't handle another child.
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Agâh Beyoglu : I am so scared of death, Munir. In fact, I'll tell you a secret. I'd be OK with it even if everyone on earth died and I were the only one left. I mean... I'm even willing to face such loneliness. What if I still remember all I've done in the afterlife? I couldn't bear that. I couldn't.
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Agâh Beyoglu : I went to see a play the other day. There was a scene that resembled this. Not exactly, but close. I didn't find it believable at first, but I think they might've had a point. They said that conscience resembles the gut. And the gut resembles conscience. If you want it emptied, you have to be the one to do it. Funny. See... I prepared this for you. To stick on your forehead. But since you're going to be the one to do it, I wouldn't want to disrespect you. I wouldn't want to get between you and your conscience. That's why I won't.
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Agâh Beyoglu : I said to myself: "Agâh, don't be scared of being afraid. Instead of fearing death and dying every day, fear death, sure, but live every day."
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Agâh Beyoglu : I used to be terrified that no one would hear what I said. Now, I'm terrified that they might. I guess... That's life.
Umut : What's wrong with your car?
Agâh Beyoglu : My car's fine. I am the one with the problem.
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Deva : I don't think names hold any meaning.
Agâh Beyoglu : Why?
Deva : Because we don't choose our own name.
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Çilingir : They keep tabs on old people.
Agâh Beyoglu : Don't you worry about that. Old people keep tabs on them, also.
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Agâh Beyoglu : Why are the mechanics always late?
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Agâh Beyoglu : Each person has a black mark on their heart when they're born they say. Once they find their calling in life, only then does the mark fade away. Suveyda is what that mark is called. It does have another meaning, but it escapes me.
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Salih : I won't let you you die before telling me why you tried to kill me. Tell me, why? Why were you after me?
Agâh Beyoglu : Conscience.
Salih : Conscience? What conscience? What does that have to do with anything?
Agâh Beyoglu : You know what conscience means, don't you?
Salih : Fuck you and and your conscience!
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Agâh Beyoglu : Kill yourself and be done with it. No more pangs of conscience, Ufuk. Go on, don't be scared.
