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How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?

Orhan Pamuk
Crush, Pain, Disappointment
FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from May 17, 2013

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

Orhan Pamuk
Pain, Loneliness, Imagination
Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Other Colours”, p.570, Faber & Faber

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. I began each day with the hope that the next day would be better, my recollections a little less pointed, but I would awake to the same pain, as if a black lamp were burning eternally inside me, radiating darkness.

Orhan Pamuk
Pain, Memories, Next Day
Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.219, Faber & Faber

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known? Even if the world's rich and powerful were to put themselves in the shoes of the rest, how much would they really understand the wretched millions suffering around them? So it is when Orhan the novelist peers into the dark corners of his poet friend's difficult and painful life: How much can he really see?

Orhan Pamuk
Crush, Pain, Powerful
Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.266, Faber & Faber

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