Excerpts from Orhan Pamuk's famous words

Love

1. Actually, I hope you lie to me, because people only lie for something they are very afraid of losing.

2. Every time I see her smile, an irresistible sense of happiness and optimism will still bloom in my heart like a sunflower with the same strength. A light from her beauty, her actions and skin that make me feel very close tells me that the center of the world I should go to is next to her.

3. This place between love and obedience is the darkest and deepest place of love.

4. The true pain of love will take root in the most fundamental point of our lives, will hold us tightly from our weakest place, will be closely linked with all other pains, and will spread throughout our whole body and life in an unstoppable form.

5. Love is a great concern and pity.

6. If we love a person very, very much, and if we can give our most precious things for him, then we will know that he will not bring us any harm. That's what sacrifice means.

7. What I want to say is that the pain of love is a whole. True love pain will be rooted in the most fundamental point of our lives, will hold us tightly from our weakest place, will be closely linked with all other pains, and will spread throughout our whole body and life in an unstoppable form. If we fall in love with someone hopelessly, all other pains, worries and anxieties, from the pain of our father in the city to the most common misfortune like losing our keys, will become the fuse of this main pain that we are ready to expand at any time. People like us who make a mess of their lives for love think that all other troubles can only be solved when the pain of love ends, so this further deepens their inner trauma.

8. After many years, I came back again and finally met you, my former lover. The light from your face, the sweet smile that was concealed, the accelerated heartbeat of sitting in the cafe at night, and the sad memories all came back. You should know that I can never forget you.

9. As long as your lover's face is still engraved on your heart, the world will still be your home

1. Standing in front of the small cemetery in the cold and dark night, feeling the turbulent current of Bosphorus, my lover whispered that she loved me very much. I said I would do anything for her, and then I tried my best to hug her. We kissed, and every time we stopped to open our eyes, we saw the orange fire on the other side projected on her soft skin.

11. With loss and regret, I am like an injured animal, and I have spent my whole life in pain. If I didn't love you so much, I wouldn't have made you so angry, and I wouldn't have lost my balance (it took me twelve years to find this balance) and returned to my original place. I feel black and blue, and my heart still feels lost and abandoned. Sometimes, I feel that I regret not only you, but the whole world.

12. "I want to see you." The voice said that it sounded like a voice actor saying "I love you" and "I want to see you" in an artificial but sincere and touching voice. After you meet me, you will understand why I want to see you. No one knows you better than I do, no one. I know you dream all night, drinking your own tea and coffee, and smoking your Marty skin cigarette which you put on the heater to dry. I know your article is typed and revised with a green ball pen. I know you are not satisfied with yourself and your life. I know that many nights, you walked in your room gloomily until dawn. You are eager to be another person instead of being yourself, but you can't decide which identity to choose. "

Humanity

13. Because of "stupidity", they see the stars above their heads but don't think; Because of "stupidity", they will first ask what is the use of things to learn; Because of "stupidity", they are not interested in details, but in general; Because of "stupid", they are all the same, and so on.

14. When outsiders look at a city, they are interested in exotic or beautiful scenery. For local people, the connection is always mixed with memories.

15. The only thing that lonely men have in common is hiding in the corner and watching * * * with guilt.

16. People have a terrible desire to pry into other people's hearts, to convey their own panic, to feel comfort for others who are as sad and afraid as themselves, to manipulate others, and to be complacent when they know that others are influenced by themselves. These are all unspeakable, demons in our hearts.

17. Sometimes I think that people like cigarettes so much, not because of the power of nicotine, but because it can easily give people the feeling of doing something meaningful in this empty and meaningless world.

18. Being unhappy means hating yourself and your city.

19. When she was a child, in Istanbul, she and Ipek always hoped that it would snow heavily: snow made her feel the beauty and brevity of life, made her feel that people were very similar despite hostility, and made her feel the vastness of time and space and the narrowness of the world. Therefore, the greater the snow falls, the smaller the distance between people. It seems to cover hostility, impatience and anger and bring people closer.

Life

29. If there is no Allah, it means there is no heaven. Then thousands of people who have nothing, the poor and the tortured will not be able to go to heaven. What's the significance of the poor people suffering so much? Why do we live and suffer so much for nothing?

21. Every wise person knows that life is beautiful, and the purpose of life is to get happiness. But in the end only fools will be happy. How will we explain this problem?

22. For most people, life is not a kind of happiness that should be experienced sincerely, but a state of constantly playing a role in a narrow space composed of various pressures, punishments and lies that must be believed.

23. In fact, no one will know that he is experiencing the happiest moment in his life when he experiences it. Maybe some people can sincerely think or say that they are experiencing that golden moment in their lives at some ecstatic moment, but they will still believe that they will experience a better and happier moment in the future. Because especially in youth, just as no one goes on with their lives while thinking that everything will be worse in the future, if a person is happy enough to imagine that he is experiencing the happiest moment in his life, then he will be optimistic enough to think that the future will be beautiful.

24. When you love a city and often stroll through it, not only your soul but also your body will be very familiar with these streets, so that many years later, in a sad mood caused by the falling light snow, your legs will automatically take you to a favorite hill.

25. Everything in time is constantly repeating, so if there is no such thing as old age, people will not be aware of the existence of time.

26. People don't live for principles, but for happiness. But people who have no principles and beliefs will not be happy.

27. There are two ways to observe the city. One is a tourist or a stranger who has just arrived, looking at its buildings, historic sites, streets and skyline from the outside. The other is internal observation. The city has houses where we are sleeping, cloisters, cinemas and classrooms, and all kinds of smells, lights and colors of the city, which are our most precious memories. For those who only observe from the outside, one city may be very similar to the next, but the diverse memories of the city are its soul, and its ruins are its most powerful testimony. "

28. How wonderful it would be if I could lie down with my clothes like this and enjoy the depressed, painful and unfortunate life alone. The joy of life is to examine your misery and pain face to face, and to be alone.

29. Many people believe that there is no doomed life, and everything is basically a series of coincidences. However, even people who hold such beliefs will come to the conclusion that at some time in their lives, when they look back, they find that what has been regarded as coincidence for many years is actually inevitable.

reading

3. Today, what literature needs to tell and analyze most is the basic fear of human beings: fear of being abandoned, unable to find its own value, and the sense of self-recognition and incompetence derived from this fear; There is also the sense of humiliation of the group, inferiority, injustice, nervousness and humiliation in illusion, as well as the nationalism expansion and self-boasting ... < P > 31. The mission of reading novels is not to make a comprehensive judgment for the whole landscape, but to experience every dark corner, every person and every color and nuance of the landscape in pleasure. When reading a novel, we don't focus on judging the whole text or understanding the text logically, but we should turn the text into a picture to make it clearer than the next one in our imagination. We should be in the gallery of this image and open our senses to meet all the * * *.

32. By reading novels carefully, I learned to take life seriously when I was young. Literary novels show that we actually have the ability to influence the development of events, and our personal decisions can shape our lives, so we should take life seriously. In a closed or semi-closed society, individual choices are limited, and novel art is in a backward state. But as long as the novel art develops in these societies, it will invite people to think about their own lives, and it can achieve this by carefully constructing literary narratives about personal personality characteristics, perceptions and choices. When we get rid of the traditional narrative and start reading novels, we gradually feel that our own world and our choices can be as important as historical events, international wars and decisions of kings, pasha, armies, * * * and gods-and what's more remarkable is that the potential of our perception and thoughts is more interesting than all of them. When I was young, I was hungry for food and read novels, and I felt a thrilling freedom and confidence.

33. Everything in front of me was so fascinating that I stopped in the middle of the road and watched the tracks of bicycles stretch forward on the road, and the road reflected the shadow of cypress trees. The trees on my left, the gentle curve of the path, the clear sky, the way all this is presented-how beautiful this place is!