In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.

Orhan Pamuk

Mots clés equality rich civilization guilt culture wealthy refinement



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Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to say that the fury owed nothing to my partial awareness that she was right.

Orhan Pamuk

Mots clés anger awareness



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In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe that they are living that golden instant "now," even having lived such a moment before, but whatever they say, in one part of their hearts they still believe in the certainty of a happier moment to come. Because how could anyone, and particularly anyone who is still young, carry on with the belief that everything could only get worse: If a person is happy enough to think he has reached the happiest moment of his life, he will be hopeful enough to believe his future will be just as beautiful, more so.

Orhan Pamuk

Mots clés life optimism happiness beauty joy hope



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Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?

Orhan Pamuk

Mots clés life intelligence happiness beauty idiots



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‎The past is always an invented land.

Orhan Pamuk


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Le meilleur commencement pour une bonne amitié, c'est un secret.

Orhan Pamuk


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Çünkü bana göre siyaset, en sonunda bizim gibi olmayanları kararlılıkla anlamama, romancılık ise anlama işidir.

Orhan Pamuk

Mots clés politics novelist



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My fear was not the fear of God but, as in the case of the whole Turkish secular bourgeoisie, fear of the anger of those who believe in God too zealously(...) I experienced the guilt complex as something personal, originated less from the fear of distancing myself from God than from distancing myself from the sense of community shared by the entire city .

Orhan Pamuk

Mots clés religion community-loneliness-love



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Какво е щастие? Да откриеш един свят, в който можеш да забравиш цялата пустота и угнетеност. Да държиш в ръцете си някого с усещането, че държиш целия Свят!

Orhan Pamuk


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كان ذلك حتى و أنا طفل ، يجعلنى أعرف أن حضارة عظيمة قامت هنا ، و مما قالوه لى : كان هناك اناس يشبهوننا عاشوا في زمان ما حياه مختلفه تماما عن حياتنا ، و قد تركونا نحن الذين أتينا من بعدهم نشعر بـأننا أفقر و أضعف و أضيق أفقا
اسطنبول :الذكريات و المدينه

Orhan Pamuk


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