4 Quotes by Olga Tokarczuk about travel
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Barbarians don't travel. They simply go to destinations or conduct raids.
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Fluidity, mobility, illusoriness-these are precisely the qualities that make us civilized. Barbarians don't travel. They simply go to destinations or conduct raids.
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Postcards of landscapes, panoramas of old ruins, postcards ambitiously prepared so as to show as much as possible on that flat space, are slowly being replaced by photographs focusing on details. This is no doubt a good idea, because they relieve tired minds. There is too much world, so it’s better to concentrate on particulars, rather than the whole.
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the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions.
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