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Heart Quotes by Orhan Pamuk

11 Heart quotes by Orhan Pamuk

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Orhan Pamuk’s words often wander through the corridors of feeling, and this handful of heart‑centered lines gives a taste of his lyrical way of probing love’s complexities. Though brief, the selection captures the tender and thoughtful tone that runs through his broader work.

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If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without…

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In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we…

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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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It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea…

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It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to…

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We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their…

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...every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who…

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How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those…

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Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about…

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When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the…

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How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those…

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It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people…

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I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

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I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire…

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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

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I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages.…

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I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

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“...love is deep attention, deep compassion...”

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

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“If you think you are better than Stork, then by all means, get hold of me.”

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I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a…

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Love is a sacred silence.

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“Creíamos saber mucho, pero no sabíamos nada. ”

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“- Za nas je otkucaj sata, baš kao žuvor šadrvana u dvorištu džamije, odjek zakoračenja u ono što je u nama, a ne zvuk…

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“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he…

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“Near Taksim he suddenly found himself inside a crowd of people leaving a movie theater. They were staring straight ahead, as if in a…

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