Orhan Pamuk Short Quotes

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Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

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Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

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

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Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?

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Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

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There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

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When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

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Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

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

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Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.

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Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents

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The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

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The gap between compassion and surrender is love's darkest, deepest region.

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

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We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

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People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.

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For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.

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The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life

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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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All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

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The biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

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The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life.

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Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

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All true literature rises from this childish, hopeful certainty that all people resemble each other.

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What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?' Be yourself,' said Ipek.

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What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.

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As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.

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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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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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