Quotes from Orhan Pamuk

Pero su poder sobre mí no procedía de algo exterior, de ser un "centro de poder" ajeno, sino de mi propio deseo de gustar, de ser querido y acariciado. Por eso me resultaba tan interesante el poder que la maestra tenía sobre una clase de 25 personas

Humanity has one strength that no one has: that is we may feel the feelings, pain, jealousy, failure, love, happiness of others and identify with them, and even see the world through their own eyes.

Ve?inu smo novca ulagali ili trošili na kupnju parcela i starih zgrada za budu?e gradnje u dijelovima grada koji ?e poskupjeti. Posebice kupuju?i prazna zemljišta izvan grada, osje?ao sam se poput sultana koji pokušava zaboraviti na bol zbog nemanja djece pripajaju?i nove države svome carstvu.

Their imaginations were fed by exile, a nourishment drawn not through roots but through rootlessness. My imagination, however, requires that I stay in the same city, on the same street, in the same house, gazing at the same view. Istanbul's fate is my fate. I am attached to this city because it has made me who I am.

He may have merely read the travel journals of Evliya Chelebi

Nietzsche's words: before speaking of art, one must try to create a work of art.

Hanya orang yang sangat pintar dan sangat tidak bahagia bisa menulis puisi yang bagus.

We write novels not because we feel we understand life and people, but because we feel we understand other novels and the art of the novel, and wish to write in a similar way.

They were so accustomed by now to the random coming and going of the lights that no one bothered anymore with the rituals of power outage

Yazmak, o çok söylenen basmakal?p deyiÅŸle, bir yoluculuÄŸa ç?kmaksa eÄŸer, yazmak mutluluÄŸu da yolculuk boyunca kar??n?za ç?k?veren bu yol arkadaÅŸlar?n? kendi dünyan?za kazand?rabilmenin sevinci olmal?.

To see the city in black and white is to see it through the tarnish of history: the patina of what is old and faded and no longer matters to the rest of the world. Even the greatest Ottoman architecture has a humble simplicity that suggests an end-of-empire gloom, a pained submission to the diminishing European gaze and to an ancient poverty that must be endured like an incurable disease. It is resignation that nourishes Istanbul's inward-looking soul.

studying biology" was our code word for visiting the brothel. We remembered there was a sign on the front of the mansion, READING CRESCENT HOTEL-RESTAURANT, and that the girls had botanical aliases—Flower, Leaf, Daphne, Rose.

U ovoj zemlji jedino kukavice opstaju. Ali svaka kukavica ?itav život sanjari kako ?e se jednoga dana preobraziti u junaka, nije li tako?

Mergulhamos na dor e o susto nos devolve à vida. Porque nada pode ser tão espantoso quanto a vida. Exceto a literatura. Sim, claro, exceto a literatura, que é o único consolo.

Hanya penyair termurni yang membiarkan cinta memasuki hatinya dalam masa revolusi.

San o junaštvu je utjeha za nesretne. Osim toga, na što se svodi junaštvo naših ljudi? Na ubijanje: ubijaju ili jedni druge, ili sami sebe!

Evet, ama bir tiyatrocu! diye düÅŸündü. Bir aile ona ne kadar uzak!

Yirmi ya??mdan beri üzerimde beni her türlü beladan ve mutsuzluktan koruyan görünmez bir z?rh olduÄŸu duygusu vard? içimde. Bu duygunun bir yan?, bana baÅŸkalar?n?n mutsuzluÄŸuyla fazla meÅŸgul olman?n beni de mutsuz edebileceÄŸini ve z?rh?m?n delinmesine yol açabileceÄŸini sezdirirdi.

Život se ne živi zbog na?ela, nego zato da bismo bili sretni.

In the realm of book arts, whenever a masterpiece is made, whenever a splendid picture makes my eyes water out of joy and causes a chill to run down my spine, I can be certain of the following: Two styles never brought together have come together to create something new and wondrous.

Butuh waktu untuk memupuk kesabaran. Pria tidak sabaran sepertimu tidak jatuh cinta dengan seorang wanita, tetapi ingin menguasainya.

T?pk?, daha oluÅŸumunu tamamlamakta olan bir gezegenin yüzeyi gibi, üzeri beton, taÅŸ, kiremit, ahÅŸap ve pleksiglas ve kubbeyle kapl? iniÅŸli ç?k??l? ÅŸehir parçac?klar?, sanki a??r a??r aralanacaklar ve karanl???n içinden esrarl? yeralt?n?n alev rengi ayd?nl??? s?zacakt?.

the hüzün the boy has carried with him since birth will lead the story into melodrama.

Ali u zemlji kao što je naša, zemlji u kojoj je ljudski život ovoliko jeftin, nepromišljeno je upropastiti se zbog onoga u što vjeruješ. Velika na?ela i vjerovanja nisu za nas: oni su za ljude iz bogatih zemalja.