#Olga Tokarczuk

Other people’s life stories are not a topic for debate. One should hear them out, and reciprocate in the same coin.

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We live in a state of siege. If one takes a close look at each fragment of a moment, one might choke with terror. Within

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That’s what I dislike most of all in people – cold irony. It’s a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never

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If you take a close look at an object, with your eyes closed to avoid being deceived by the appearances that things exude

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People – who themselves are in fact a process – are afraid of whatever is impermanent and always changing, which is why

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People are built like houses inside — they have stairwells, spacious halls, vestibules that are always too weakly lit to

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But children aren’t people. Children become people when they wriggle out of your arms and say “no.”

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

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The internet is a fraud. It promises so much — that it will execute your every command, that it will find you what you’

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Whenever I set off on any sort of journey I fall off the radar. No one knows where I am.

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What makes us most human is the possession of a unique and irreproducible story, that we take place over time and leave

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Standing there on the embankment, staring into the current, I realized that — in spite of all the risks involved — a thing

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Every single person has their own expression which he or she overuses. Or uses incorrectly. These words or phrases are the

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There are some people at whom one only has to glance for one’s throat to tighten and one’s eyes to fill with tears of

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People think they live more intensely than animals, than plants, and especially than things. Animals sense that they live

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But why should we have to be useful and for what reason? Who divided the world into useless and useful, and by what right?

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