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

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The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that w...more

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Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness

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The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that w...more

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Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

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What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles somewhere around the upper belly b...more

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Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

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The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.

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Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.

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I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring ...more

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After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happ...more

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Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beaut...more

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After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

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The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.

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In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely belie...more