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

— Orhan Pamuk My Name Is Red (1998)

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Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

My Name Is Red (1998)

All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

My Name Is Red (1998)

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

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I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

My Name Is Red (1998)

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

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