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Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red Quotes: What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.
         

What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.


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