"How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?"

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Source : FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from May 17, 2013

Orhan Pamuk

#Crush Quotes #Pain Quotes #Disappointment Quotes

“Sometimes people tell me I'm a good guy. Thank God, I'd probably be a terrible woman”
“Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity.”

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“When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word 'woman' and raise it specially?”
“When you plant seeds in the garden, you donâ€™t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and instead be content creating the causes for goodness; the results will come when theyâ€™re ready.”
“My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.”
“Time is our present breath.”
“I'm not confident about my appearance, I'm not confident about anything really in my life, I'm a very tortured soul when it comes to self-confidence, but when it comes to my pop songs, if I started to question, I would never stop questioning.”
“I remember John walking on and starting to play, and my mouth sort of dropped open in disbelief at the power of the playing coming across the stage - and the technique! I've never, ever seen another drummer play quite the way he did.”

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