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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."
"To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite."
"The worldly life has persisted due to imitation of worldly movements and by opposing them, one becomes free."
"When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now."
Explore more quotes by Orhan Pamuk
"It seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising out memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room."
"These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented."
"If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope."
"Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something," said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything."
"I saw myself in the mirror, and from my expression I had a shocking intimation of the rift between my body and my soul. Whereas my face was drained by defeat and shock, inside my head was another universe: I now understood as an elemental fact of life that while I was here, inside my body was a soul, a meaning, that all things were made of desire, touch, and love, that what I was suffering was composed of the same elements."
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