What did Orhan Pamuk mean by: People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing. Orhan Pamuk Novelist · Turkey Copy
The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Orhan Pamuk, Beauty, Joy, Mystery, 0 Orhan Pamuk Novelist · Turkey
The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Orhan Pamuk, Acceptance, Connection, Disappointment, 0 Orhan Pamuk Novelist · Turkey
The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Orhan Pamuk, Choice, Nationalism, Peace, 0 Orhan Pamuk Novelist · Turkey
We’re not stupid! We’re just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Orhan Pamuk, Distinction, Intelligence, Poverty, 0 Orhan Pamuk Novelist · Turkey
As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Orhan Pamuk, Acceptance, Individuality, Self-love, 0 Orhan Pamuk Novelist · Turkey
For if a lover’s face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Orhan Pamuk, Home, Identity, Love, 0 Orhan Pamuk Novelist · Turkey
The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Orhan Pamuk, Compassion, Love, Surrender, 0 Orhan Pamuk Novelist · Turkey
+ Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world. Author, April 22, 2023December 25, 2024, Orhan Pamuk, Connection, Fulfillment, Love, 0 Orhan Pamuk Novelist · Turkey
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn’t bore. Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. Read explanation Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
