Quotes From "My Name Is Red" By Orhan Pamuk

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or...
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Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? Orhan Pamuk
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to...
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Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. Orhan Pamuk
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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. Orhan Pamuk
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Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. Orhan Pamuk
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Perhaps one day someone from a distant land will listen to this story of mine. Isn't this what lies behind the desire to be inscribed in the pages of a book? Isn't it just for the sake of this delight that sultans and viziers proffer bags of gold to have their histories written? Orhan Pamuk
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...it seemed to me that 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 out memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room Orhan Pamuk
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Maybe you've understood by now that for men like myself, that is, melancholy men for whom love, agony, happiness and misery are just excuses for maintaining eternal loneliness, life offers neither great joy nor great sadness. Orhan Pamuk
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What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination. Orhan Pamuk
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…he quit drinking coffee, and naturally, his brain stopped working. Orhan Pamuk
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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. Orhan Pamuk
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Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers. Orhan Pamuk
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Maybe you've heard the story of the man who was so driven by this curiosity that he roamed among soldiers in battlefields. He sought a man who had died and returned to life amid the wounded struggling for their lives in pools of blood, a soldier who could tell him about the secrets of the Otherworld. But one of Tamerlane's warriors, taking the seeker for one of the enemy, cleared him in half with a smooth stroke of his scimitar, causing him to conclude that in the Hereafter man is split in two. Orhan Pamuk
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In the cities of the European Franks, women roam about exposing not only their faces, but also their brightly shining hair (after their necks, their most attractive feature), their arms, their beautiful throats, and even, if what Ive heard is true, a portion of their gorgeous legs; as a result, the men of those cities walk about with great difficulty, embarrassed and in extreme pain, because, you see, their front sides are always erect and this fact naturally leads to the paralysis of their society. Undoubtedly, this is why each day the Frank infidel surrenders another fortress to us Ottomans. Orhan Pamuk
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Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen. Orhan Pamuk
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Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing? Orhan Pamuk