My unhappiness protects me from life.

quote by Orhan Pamuk
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I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

Orhan Pamuk in My Name is Red
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I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Orhan Pamuk in The New Life
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Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

quote by Orhan Pamuk
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Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

Orhan Pamuk in My Name is Red
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Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

Orhan Pamuk in My Name is Red (1998)
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Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

Orhan Pamuk in The Museum of Innocence
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I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

Orhan Pamuk in My Name is Red
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There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

Orhan Pamuk in Snow
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Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

Orhan Pamuk in My Name is Red
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