Orhan Pamuk Quotes About Compassion

Quotes about: Compassion

• The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Eye, Compassion, Color

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.343, Faber & Faber

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

  Orhan Pamuk

  Compassion, Gaps, Surrender

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.140, Faber & Faber

• Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about identifying with and understanding people who are not necessarily like us. By nature all good novels are political because identifying with the other is political. At the heart of the 'art of the novel' lies the human capacity to see the world through others' eyes. Compassion is the greatest strength of the novelist.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Art, Lying, Eye

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