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Orhan Pamuk Quotes

Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents Picture Quote #1

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? Picture Quote #1

People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing Picture Quote #1

The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region Picture Quote #1

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world Picture Quote #1

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver Picture Quote #1

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All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time Picture Quote #1

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation Picture Quote #1

In actuality, we don’t look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That’s why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life Picture Quote #1

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn’t want to give up all the things he came to value in the west Picture Quote #1

Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief Picture Quote #1

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known? Picture Quote #1

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What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand Picture Quote #1

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is Picture Quote #1

For if a lover’s face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home Picture Quote #1

The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse Picture Quote #1

As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it’s first solo walk outside the body Picture Quote #1

The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life Picture Quote #1

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It’s such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can’t find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people Picture Quote #1

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion... open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony Picture Quote #1

She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life Picture Quote #1

Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they’d had to share their rooms with others Picture Quote #1

After all, isn’t the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share? Picture Quote #1

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible Picture Quote #1

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After all, a woman who doesn’t love cats is never going to be make a man happy Picture Quote #1

With the death of my father, it wasn’t just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole Picture Quote #1

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality Picture Quote #1

Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul Picture Quote #1

... every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who reflects it, and everyone carries this reflection like a secret confidante in the heart Picture Quote #1

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I’d been living luminously between two eternities of darkness Picture Quote #1

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Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) In actuality, we don’t look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That’s why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn’t want to give up all the things he came to value in the west (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known? (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) For if a lover’s face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it’s first solo walk outside the body (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) It’s such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can’t find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion... open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they’d had to share their rooms with others (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) After all, isn’t the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share? (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) After all, a woman who doesn’t love cats is never going to be make a man happy (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) With the death of my father, it wasn’t just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) ... every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who reflects it, and everyone carries this reflection like a secret confidante in the heart (Orhan Pamuk Quotes) Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I’d been living luminously between two eternities of darkness (Orhan Pamuk Quotes)

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