When you look into the faces of these quiet creatures who don't know how to tell stories--who are mute, who can't make themselves heard, who fade into the woodwork, who only think of the perfect answer after the fact, after they're back at home, who can never think of a story that anyone else will find interesting--is there not more depth and more meaning in them? You can see every letter of every untold story swimming on their faces, and all the signs of silence, dejection, and even defeat. You can even imagine your own face in those faces, can't you?
Now everyone is prouder and poorer - Orhan Pamuk
Now everyone is prouder and poorer
- Orhan Pamuk
It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who… - Orhan Pamuk
It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who…
The past is always an invented land. - Orhan Pamuk
The past is always an invented land.
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… - Orhan Pamuk
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…
Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it. - Orhan Pamuk
Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? - Orhan Pamuk
Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?
Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed. - Orhan Pamuk
Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.
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… - Orhan Pamuk
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…
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. - Orhan Pamuk
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
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