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If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.

If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.

Orhan Pamuk
Beautiful, Heart, Giving
Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.55, Faber & Faber

For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.

Orhan Pamuk
Home, Heart, World
FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Apr 08, 2013

...every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who reflects it, and everyone carries this reflection like a secret confidante in the heart.

Orhan Pamuk
Stars, Heart, Reflection
Orhan Pamuk (2006). “Snow”, p.118, Vintage

It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him.

Orhan Pamuk
Falling In Love, Heart, Men
Orhan Pamuk (2006). “Snow”, p.222, Vintage

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 uttering without preparation. "Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destroy their love, even on the worst days, even when they are heedlessly hurting each other in the cruelest , most deceitful ways, still carry in their hearts a consolation that never abandons them." (p.191)

Orhan Pamuk
Hurt, Heart, Two
Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.191, Faber & Faber

We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey, we have ours, don't we? But we have something they don't have. Heart. We have heart. Look, look how the light of life seeps into my very heart

Orhan Pamuk
New York, Heart, Color
Orhan Pamuk (2014). “The New Life: A Novel”, p.104, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.

Orhan Pamuk
Country, Heart, People
FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Jul 29, 2011

In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.

Orhan Pamuk
Heart, Museums, Losing
"Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence - in pictures", www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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