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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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Explore more quotes by Orhan Pamuk
"Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe."
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"My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west."
Values
"The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone."
Power
"I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city."
People
"I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries."
Being
"At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with."
Adaptation
"The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation."
Imitation
"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."
Society
"The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western."
Experience
"There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well."
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