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I am nothing but a corpse now...

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

Orhan Pamuk 177 quotes

Where there is true art and g...

Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

Orhan Pamuk 177 quotes

Great changes in the directio...

Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.

Orhan Pamuk 177 quotes

Nothing changed in my life si...

Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the first 10 years I worried about money and no one asked me how much money I made. The second decade I spent money and no one was asking me about that. And I've spent the last 10 years with everyone expecting to hear how I spend the money, which I will not do.

Orhan Pamuk 177 quotes

[N]othing is as surprising as...

[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.

Orhan Pamuk 177 quotes

The image that I remember mos...

The image that I remember most of all is of the Fenerbah?e players storming into the stadium before kickoff. They were called the canaries because of their yellow jerseys. It was as if they, like canaries, were fluttering into the stadium out of a hole. I loved it. It was poetry.

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Of course in Turkey I'm seen ...

Of course in Turkey I'm seen as being on the 'Western' side, criticised by the nationalists, criticised by the communitarians as not belonging. Even, sometimes, criticised for looking at my country through Western eyes. And in the Western media I'm portrayed as belonging to the East.

Orhan Pamuk 177 quotes

I very much enjoy reading oth...

I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they think?

Orhan Pamuk 177 quotes

I see Turkey's future as being...

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

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...every person has a star, ev...

...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 177 quotes

Colour is the touch of the eye...

Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.

Orhan Pamuk 177 quotes

How much can we ever know abou...

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's 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? Even if the world's rich and powerful were to put themselves in the shoes of the rest, how much would they really understand the wretched millions suffering around them? So it is when Orhan the novelist peers into the dark corners of his poet friend's difficult and painful life: How much can h

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Love is a sacred silence....

Love is a sacred silence.

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What is love?Ђќ 'I don't know....

What is love?Ђќ 'I don't know.Ђќ 'Love is the name given to the bond Kemal feels with FГјsun whenever they travel along highways or sidewalks; visit houses, gardens, or rooms; or whenever he watches her sitting in tea gardens and restaurants, and at dinner tables.Ђќ 'Hmmm that's a lovely answer,~ But isn't love what you feel when you can't see me?Ђќ 'Under those circumstances, it becomes a terrible obsession, an illness.

Orhan Pamuk 177 quotes

Happiness is holding someone i...

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

Orhan Pamuk 177 quotes

Listen to me: Life is not abou...

Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it`s about happiness.` `But if you don`t have any principles, and if you don`t have faith, you can`t be happy at all,` said Kadife. `That`s true. But in a brutal country like ours, where human life is cheap, it`s stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.` `Actually, it`s the other way round. In a poor country, people`s sole consolation comes from their beliefs.

Orhan Pamuk 177 quotes

Before my birth there was infi...

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 177 quotes

Life can't be all that bad,' i...

Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.

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...the endless repetition of a...

...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.

Orhan Pamuk 177 quotes

Immersing oneself in the probl...

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

Orhan Pamuk 177 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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