A map is a two-dimensional representation with arbitrary symbols and incised lines that decide who is to be our enemy and who is to be our friend, wh… - Elif Şafak

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A map is a two-dimensional representation with arbitrary symbols and incised lines that decide who is to be our enemy and who is to be our friend, who deserves our love and who deserves our hatred and who, our sheer indifference. Cartography is another name for stories told by winners. For stories told by those who have lost, there isn’t one.

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About Elif Şafak

Elif Shafak (born October 25, 1971) is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, academic, public speaker and women's rights activist.

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Alternative Names: Elif Shafak Elif Bilgin Shafaq
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"When you kill someone, something from that person passes to you - a sigh, a smell or a gesture. I call it "the curse of the victim." It clings to your body and seeps into your skin, going all the way into your heart, and thus continues to live within you. I carry with me the traces of all the men I have killed. I wear them around my neck like invisible necklaces, feeling their presence against my flesh, tight and heavy. In every murderer breathes the man he murdered."

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إنها لقاعد الأولى يا أخي : إن الطريقة التي نرى فيها الله ما هي إلا انعكاس للطريق التي نرى فيها أنفسنا
فإذا لم يكن الله يجلب إلى عقولنا إلا الخوف والملامة، فهذا يعني أن قدرا كبيرا من الخوف والملامة يتدفق في نفوسنا، أما إذا رأينا الله مفعما بالمحبة والرحمة، فإننا نكون كذلك.

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