Orhan Pamuk
"I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual."
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"I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual."
"لا أبالي كثيرًا إن تولى السلطة ريفيون أناضوليون أم علمانيون إسطنبوليون. لست قريبًا من أي منهم. ما يهمني هو احترام الفرد."
Orhan Pamuk
"Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it."
"الحياة قصيرة، وعلينا أن نجلّ كل لحظة فيها."
Orhan Pamuk
"If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope."
"إن أراد الكاتب أن يروي قصته الخاصة، فليتأنّ في سردها، وليُلبسها ثوب حكايا الآخرين. وإن كان له أن يستشعر قوة الحكاية وهي تتجلى في أعماقه، وأن يجلس إلى المائدة، ويُسلم نفسه بصبر لهذا الفن، لهذه الصنعة، فلا بدّ أن يكون قد أُوتي شيئاً من الأمل بادئ ذي بدء."
Orhan Pamuk
"It’s not enough to be oppressed, you must also be in the right. Most oppressed people are in the wrong to an almost ridiculous degree. What shall I believe in?"
"لا يكفي أن تكون مظلومًا، بل يجب أن تكون على حق. فغالبية المظلومين هم على خطأ إلى حد يكاد يبلغ السخافة. فبماذا عساي أن أؤمن؟"
Orhan Pamuk
"I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on..." - Conversations with Yahya Kemal"
"سألته عن أعدائه، فشرع في عدهم. وطالت القائمة وطالت..."
Orhan Pamuk
"It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it."
"كانت أسعد لحظات حياتي، وإن لم أدرك حينها."
Orhan Pamuk
"Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world."
"السعادة أن تضم أحدهم بين ذراعيك، وتدرك أنك تحتضن العالم بأسره."
Orhan Pamuk
Snow
"The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep."
"كان البحر مظلمًا كالأحلام وعميقًا كالمنام."
Orhan Pamuk
"I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning."
"لا أريد أن أكون شجرة؛ أريد أن أكون معناها."
Orhan Pamuk
My Name Is Red
"I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness."
"كنت أعيش متألقًا بين أبدين من الظلام."
Orhan Pamuk
"A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience."
"الروائي في جوهره إنسان يقطع المسافات بصبره، ببطء، كالنملة. الروائي لا يثير إعجابنا برؤيته الشيطانية والرومانسية، بل بصبره."
Orhan Pamuk
"It's not the content, but the form of thought that counts."
"ليس المحتوى، بل شكل الفكر هو ما يهم."
Orhan Pamuk
"A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is. When I speak of writing, the image that comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or a literary tradition; it is the person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and, alone, turns inward. Amid his shadows, he builds a new world with words."
"الكاتب هو من يقضي سنواتٍ طوالًا، بصبرٍ وأناة، محاولًا اكتشاف الكائن الثاني الكامن في أعماقه، والعالم الذي صاغه وجعله ما هو عليه. وحين أتحدث عن الكتابة، فإن الصورة التي تتبادر إلى ذهني أولًا ليست روايةً، ولا قصيدةً، ولا تقليدًا أدبيًا؛ بل هي صورة الشخص الذي يغلق على نفسه باب غرفة، ويجلس إلى طاولة، ثم ينصرف إلى ذاته وحيدًا. وفي غمرة ظلاله، يبني عالمًا جديدًا بالكلمات."
Orhan Pamuk
"The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong."
"السبب الجوهري لوحدتي هو أنني لا أعرف حتى أين أنتمي."
Orhan Pamuk
"Those who can truly see, know."
"أهل البصيرة يدركون."
Orhan Pamuk
"I do know this much though: If a man resorts to wiles, guile and petty deceptions, it means he's nowhere near being in love."
Orhan Pamuk
"Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living."
Orhan Pamuk
"I saw myself in the mirror, and from my expression I had a shocking intimation of the rift between my body and my soul. Whereas my face was drained by defeat and shock, inside my head was another universe: I now understood as an elemental fact of life that while I was here, inside my body was a soul, a meaning, that all things were made of desire, touch, and love, that what I was suffering was composed of the same elements."
Orhan Pamuk
"What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either."
Orhan Pamuk
"I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work."
Orhan Pamuk
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