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  1. Orhan Pamuk _ Snow

    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 other--or kill ourselves.
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  2. Orhan Pamuk _ Snow

    Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something," said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything.
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  3. Orhan Pamuk _ Snow

    In twenty years' time-in other words, when you're thirty-seven years old-you will have understood at last that all the evil in the world-I mean the poverty and ignorance of the poor and the cunning and lavishness of the rich-and all the vulgarity in the world, and all the violence, and all the brutality-I mean all the things that make you feel guilty and think of suicide-by the time you're thirty-seven you'll know that all these things are the result of everyone's thinking alike," Ka said.
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  4. Orhan Pamuk _ Snow

    It was as if he were in a place that the whole world had forgotten; as if it were snowing at the end of the world.
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  5. Orhan Pamuk _ Snow

    Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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  6. Orhan Pamuk _ Snow

    Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to God. It's the fact that no one is more curious than we are to learn why we are here on earth and what will happen to us in the next world.
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  7. Orhan Pamuk _ Snow

    ...every life is like a snowflake: individual existences might look identical from afar, but to understand one´s own eternally mysterious uniqueness one had only to plot the mysteries of one´s own snowflake."
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  8. Orhan Pamuk _ Snow

    Only vulgar people boast about how happy they are
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  9. Orhan Pamuk _ Snow

    In a city where men are killing each other like animals just to make it a happier place, who has the right to stop me from killing myself?
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  10. Orhan Pamuk _ Snow

    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 the innocent ones, who get involved because they believe in equality and justice. The arrogant ones are obsessed with power; they presume to think for everyone; only bad can come of them. But the innocents? The only harm they do is to themselves. But that's all they ever wanted in the first place. They feel so guilty about the suffering of the poor, and are so keen to share it, that they make their lives miserable on purpose.
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  11. Orhan Pamuk _ Snow

    Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.
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  12. Orhan Pamuk _ Snow

    Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they'd had to share their rooms with others.
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