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شب همه شب *

شب همه شب شکسته خواب به چشمم

گوش ...
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...it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened i...
ORHAN PAMUK
...The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and comp...
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الشعرُ شقيق الرسم ، و اللون شقيق الكلمة .
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أنا تعيسة لإني لا أفهم مايقول قلبي
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ثمّة لحظات تمُر في حياتنا جميعاً نُدرك عند حدوثها أننا...
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المهارة ليست بقراءة المكتوب فقط !
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كان خلفي زمن لا محدود حتّى قبل أن أولد , وبعد أن متّ أيضا...
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Colour is the touch of the eye,
Music to the deaf,
A word out of darkness.
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I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.
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هل العشق يجعل الإنسان غبيّاً أم أن الأغبياء فقط يعشقون ...
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A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it,...
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Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of ...
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Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves mig...
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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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The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compass...
ORHAN PAMUK
When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, g...
ORHAN PAMUK
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
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Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?
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I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.
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The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbo...
ORHAN PAMUK
The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.
ORHAN PAMUK
The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes...
ORHAN PAMUK
But we should search for the strange and surprising in the world, not within ourselves! To search wi...
ORHAN PAMUK
Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the res...
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It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it. Had I known, had I cherished this gi...
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Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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I think perhaps it is a generational thing,
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We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, ...
ORHAN PAMUK
I must be myself, I said over and over. I must forget these people buzzing inside my head, I must fo...
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In the cities of the European Franks, women roam about exposing not only their faces, but also their...
ORHAN PAMUK
The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his s...
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Cuando el jardín de la memoria comienza a secarse -le había dicho Celâl una de aquellas noches-, ...
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Encontrarse solo con los rastros en lugar de con los recuerdos en sí se parece a mirar con lágrima...
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Cualquier cosa que me recuerde a ti, me entristece tanto que no lo puedo soportar.
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An illustration that does not complement a story, in the end, will become but a false idol. Since we...
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Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece wi...
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Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this...
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It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it.
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Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a lon...
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- اسمعيني .. لا تُعاش الحياة من أجل المبادئ , بل من أجل ال�...
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Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've r...
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For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melanc...
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Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private mome...
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...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the ...
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Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the ...
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The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effort...
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Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
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...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.
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Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that w...
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...every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is s...
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I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a ma...
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Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.
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The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life
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What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?'

Be yourself,...
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In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the ...
ORHAN PAMUK
when we reach the point when our lives take on their final shape as in a novel we can identify our h...
ORHAN PAMUK
Bu vatan, toprağın kara bağrında
Sıradağlar gibi duranlarındır;
Bir tarih boyunca,...
ORHAN ŞAIK GöKYAY
Bakakalırım giden geminin ardından;
Atamam kendimi denize, dünya güzel;
Serde erkek...
ORHAN VELI KANıK
I don't love her anymore
So
Why should I walk
Nights
By the tavern
Where I ...
ORHAN VELI KANıK