213 Quotes by Olga Tokarczuk

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    Reality has grown old and gone senile; after all, it is definitely subject to the same laws as every living organism – it ages.

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    The last time I had brought him maps, for I had heard that nothing cures melancholy like looking at maps.

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    Your memory creates postcard images, but it doesn’t really comprehend the world at all. That’s why a landscape is so affected by the mood of the person looking at it. In it a person sees his own inner, transitory moments. Wherever he looks, he sees nothing but himself.

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    The prison is not outside, but inside each of us. Perhaps we simply don’t know how to live without it.

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    They weren’t real travelers: they left in order to return.

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    I wasn’t in a hurry. I never have to be in any particular place at any particular time. Let time watch me, not me it.

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    In a certain sense this was true, and truth is always true in a certain sense;.

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    With age, many men come down with testosterone autism, the symptoms of which are a gradual decline in social intelligence and capacity for interpersonal communication, as well as a reduced ability to formulate thoughts.

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    Everything will pass. The wise Man knows this from the start, and has no regrets.

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