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“To avoid disappointment in art, one mustn't treat it as a career.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“I grow jealous of your memories because those are times in your life i will never be a part of, and i imagine them large and exuberant in your head.”
― Janice Pariat, The Nine-Chambered Heart

“Maybe you've understood by now that for men like myself, that is, melancholy men for whom love, agony, happiness and misery are just excuses for maintaining eternal loneliness, life offers neither great joy nor great sadness.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“As though I am oriented only by your presence, or your absence. You are my north.”
― Janice Pariat, The Nine-Chambered Heart