...the true collector’s only home is his own museum.
Orhan PamukTag: museum collectors artifacts
This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.
Orhan PamukTag: time consolation living-life timelessness museums
...love is deep attention, deep compassion...
Orhan PamukTag: love compassion attention
Let everyone know, I lived a very happy life.
Orhan PamukTag: happiness happy-life
We used to be brothers and sisters here. Kurdish, did not know he was. Turkmenians, Germans, they all existed here but never were proud of it. That pride was only distributed by the powers who aimed to destroy Turkey.
Orhan PamukNear Taksim he suddenly found himself inside a crowd of people leaving a movie theater. They were staring straight ahead, as if in a trance, walking down the stairs arm in arm or with their hands plunged in their pockets, and Galip was so overwhelmed by what he read in their faces and that his own nightmare faded into the background. What he read in their faces was peace: these people had been able to forget their own sadness by immersing themselves in a story. They were here, on this wretched street, but at the same time they were there, inside the story to which they'd so eagerly given themselves over. They had gone into theater with minds sucked dry by pain and defeat,but now their minds were full again with rich story that gave meaning to their memories and their melancholy. They can believe they're someone else! thought Galip longingly. For a moment he was tempted to go in to watch the film they'd just seen,to lose himself in the same story and become someone else. As they wandered down the street, stopping now and again to gaze into boring shop windows, Galip watched the return to the dull and dreary world they knew so well.
They don't make much effort! Thought Galip.
Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.
Orhan PamukTag: memory remembering images
I always think that it's wrong to put images of my protagonists on the cover of my novels because readers can identify with characters only if they are given the chance to imagine them independently.
Orhan PamukTag: imagining book-covers characters-in-books
Happiness is laughing together...
Orhan Pamuk...man's sentimental attachment to objects is one of life's greatest consolations.
Orhan PamukTag: attachment consolation sentimentality objects
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