Orhan Pamuk - My Name Is Red (1998)

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

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The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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There are moments in all our lives when we realize, even as we experience them, that we are living through events we will never forget, even long afterward.

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

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When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so well after a number of years that in a fit of melancholy, perhaps stirred by a light snow falling ever so sorrowfully, you'll discover your legs carrying you of their own accord toward one of your favourite promontories.

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

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Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.

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

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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.

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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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A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!

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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 entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.

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