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

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The only antidote to the loneliness of the streets was the streets themselves.

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In our household doubts more troubling than these were suffered in silence. The spiritual void I have seen in so many of Istanbul's rich, Westernised,...more

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A man could be at the coffee-house every evening laughing and playing cards with his friends, he could have so much fun with his classmates that there...more

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As I was looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, it occurred to me that if all else failed, a man could at least kiss himself, and I stared in to th...more