Orhan Pamuk quotes - page 2

... 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)
Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents.
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does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.
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I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
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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.
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Painting taught literature to describe.
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... the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.
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Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
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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?
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Let everyone know, I lived a very happy life.
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I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. (Orhan Pamuk)
Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.
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Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?
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Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.
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The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.
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Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.
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Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
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Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.
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After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.
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Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?
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People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing. (Orhan Pamuk)
As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them.
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Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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