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

— 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)

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

My Name Is Red (1998)

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

My Name Is Red (1998)

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?

My Name Is Red (1998)

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