Quotes by Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

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Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space. — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy. — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the thin — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to say that the fury o — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity a — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible. — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. --- fr — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region. — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the words I was utter — Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence