Quotes from Orhan Pamuk

No puedo meditar sino andando; tan pronto como me detengo, dejo de meditar; mi cabeza no funciona sino al compás de mis pies.   JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, Las confesiones

Samiha le había destrozado el corazón al recordarle que hubo un tiempo en que no lo había amado. En momentos como ese, en el que todos los fracasos e insatisfacciones de su vida parecían inundarlo por dentro como una oleada de arrepentimiento, su mente volvía automáticamente a Rayiha.

every person had a star, every star had a friend, and for every person carrying a star there was someone else who reflected it, and everyone carried this reflection as a secret confidant in his heart.

Cartile nu adauga nefericirii omenesti decat o anumita adancime, pe care noi o socotim a fi consolare.

Không có ni?m h?nh phúc nào lá»›n hÆ¡n khi m?t ??i m?t vá»›i chính sá»± t?i tàn và kh?n kh? c?a mình

As Çetin drove us home, slowly and carefully, I realized I was happy. These dark, empty streets that now belonged to Istanbul's dog packs, these avenues so ugly by daylight, hemmed in by concrete apartment buildings in such dreadful condition that it sapped my will just to look at them-now they looked alluringly mysterious, like poems.

May God bless all that you touch, sister," I would say so that Mevlut would learn that if you want to survive in this jungle, you have to make certain compromises, so that he would understand that if you want to be rich, you must be prepared to grovel.

Um dia abri um livro e toda a minha vida mudou. Desde a primeira página, sofri com tanta força o poder do livro que senti o meu corpo apartado da cadeira e da mesa a que me sentava.

Dac? în tine d?inuie chipul unei iubite, pictat în inim?, îÈ›i este cas? întreaga lume.

Era o momento mais feliz da minha vida, mas eu não sabia. Se soubesse, se tivesse dado o devido valor a essa dádiva, tudo teria acontecido de outra maneira? Sim, se eu tivesse reconhecido aquele momento de felicidade perfeita, teria agarrado com força e nunca deixaria que me escapasse.

Nos interesa el límite peligroso de las cosas. El ladrón honesto, el asesino sensible, el ateo supersticioso. ROBERT BROWNING, Apología del obispo Blougram La política en una obra literaria es un tiro de pistola en medio de un concierto, algo grosero pero imposible de ignorar. Estamos a punto de hablar de asuntos muy feos. STENDHAL, La cartuja de Parma

Em seus olhos havia a luz que só se vê em crianças que chegam a um lugar novo, ou nos jovens ainda abertos a novas influências, ainda curiosos quanto ao mundo porque ainda não foram calejados pela vida.

The story spoke to them in just the same way that Oedipus' murder of his father and Macbeth's obsession with power and death speak to people throughout the Western world. But now, because we've fallen under the spell of the West, we've forgotten our own stories. They've removed all the old stories from our children's textbooks. These days, you can't find a single bookseller who stocks the Shehname in all of Istanbul! How do you explain this?

Gospodine službeni?e, pogledajte te ljude, rekla je i rukom kroz prozor pokazala na grad. Ono što ovih deset miliona ljudi u Istanbulu drži na okupu jeste novac za hleb, interes, ra?un, kamata, vi to znate bolje od mene. Ali postoji samo jedna stvar koja ?oveka drži na nogama u toj vrevi - a to je ljubav. Orhan Pamuk: ?udan ose?aj u meni

Ninguém reconhece o momento mais feliz da sua vida no instante em que o vive.

to ''discover'' the city's soul in it's ruins, to see these ruins as expressing the city's ''essence'', you must travel down a long, labyrinth path strewn with historical accidents.

You're just a typical little European from Ni?anta?. Not only were you brought up to look down on your own traditions, you also think you live on a higher plane than ordinary people. According to your kind, the road to a good moral life is not through God or religion, or through taking part in the life of the common people—no, it's just a matter of imitating the West.

K?z?n?n o kar???k çantas?na göz at?nca ÅŸehirle, insanlarla, kurumlarla kendisinin baÅŸard???ndan daha derin ve düzgün bir iliÅŸki kurduÄŸunu, kendisinin yaln?zca sat?c? olarak tan?d??? pek çok insanla pek çok ÅŸeyler konuÅŸtuÄŸunu anlard?.

what is important or a painter is not a thing's reality but it's shape, and what is important for a novelist is not the course of events but their ordering, and what is important for a memorist is not the factual accuracy of the account, but it's symmetry.

While I was looking at the Bosphorus through the gaps between the apartment buildings of Cihangir, I learned something else about neighborhood life: There must always be a center (usually a shop) where all the gossip is gathered, interpreted, and assessed. In Cihangir this center was the grocery store on the ground floor of our apartment building.

Welcome to our border city, sir. But what are you here for?" Ka explained that he had come to cover the municipal elections and also perhaps to write about the suicide girls. "As in Batman, the stories about the suicide girls have been exaggerated," the journalist replied. "Let's go over to meet Kas?m Bey, the assistant chief of police. They should know you've arrived—just in case.

Ben sana ÅŸundan söz ediyorum: Biraz esnek ol! Ya hep ya hiç görüÅŸünü deÄŸiÅŸtir. Hayat?n hep küçük uzlaÅŸmalar olduÄŸunu anla. Aile ve dükkan? BaÅŸka bir ÅŸey yok mu? BaÅŸka bir ÅŸey yoksa hayat çok dar, s?k?c? ve zevksiz demektir. Bu görüÅŸünü deÄŸiÅŸtir. Biraz daha aç?l.

Los jóvenes aún puede sentir curiosidad y apetito por todo porque todavía no se han llevado ninguna bofetada de la vida

Of course, I will be remembered only so long as my illustrations and manuscripts cause your eyes to prance and flowers of bliss to bloom in your hearts.