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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppres...more

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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up ...more

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When, after hours of lovemaking, we quickly dressed and leftthe apartment, I sometimes thought that Füsun was also taking care not to get “carried awa...more

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...and awakening, at that moment, to the thrilling prospect of complete surrender, not just of one’s lips but of one’s entire body to a lover’s mercy,...more

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...the waiting was torture, the worst Ka had ever known. It was this pain, this deadly wait, he now remembered, that had made him afraid to fall in lo...more

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I do know this much though: If a man resorts to wiles, guile and petty deceptions, it means he's nowhere near being in love.

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I saw myself in the mirror, and from my expression I had a shocking intimation of the rift between my body and my soul. Whereas my face was drained by...more

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Many years before, Ka had explained to me that when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also inimical to poetr...more

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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a land...more

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Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

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Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

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The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that w...more

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The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that w...more

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Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

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What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles somewhere around the upper belly b...more