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

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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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Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each oth...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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...in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs, high ideals--only p...more

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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

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Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

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There are two kinds of Communists: the arrogant ones, who enter the fray hoping to make men out of the people and bring progress to the nation; and th...more