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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

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Orhan Pamuk
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 7
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Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.
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