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Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.

— 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)

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?

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)

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