Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave.
Now everyone is prouder and poorer - Orhan Pamuk
Now everyone is prouder and poorer
- Orhan Pamuk
The past is always an invented land. - Orhan Pamuk
The past is always an invented land.
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…
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…
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.
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?
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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