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How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?

Orhan Pamuk

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Orhan Pamuk
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 7
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İstanbul
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