Orhan Pamuk: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 2)

“What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?'

Be yourself,' said Ipek.”

“For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.”

“Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.”

“Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.”

“Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.”

“There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.”

“[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.”

“Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.”

“As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.”

“She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.”

“We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction”

“Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.”

“The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life”

“It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.”

“Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere”

“If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.”

“The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.”

“I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.”

“The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.”